Charley Hull's Nightmare Hole Was Actually the Most Golf Thing Ever

The internet loves a good "the pros—they're just like us" moment. Whether if it's a duffed chip or the unspeakable "s" word that has a habit of showing up at the worst possible time, some seemingly can't wait for those blow up moments from the most elite golfers to prove that they're human.

And I get it, this game can be both cruel and kind, and there's comfort in knowing that it can perplex those who do it for a living, but I think at some point we need lay that argument to rest. Because it's not serving anybody any good.

Charley Hull is the latest player to take the brunt of these collective takes after making a pretty damning quadruple bogey 9 during the opening round of the ISPS HANDA Women's Scottish Open at Dundonald Links on Thursday.

She had a 15-footer for birdie but just muscled the putt through her intended line, resulting in her ball trickling off the green, and the only thing she could do was watch in bewilderment. I mean it was just a bad read, with way too much speed, who can't relate to that?

But what made matters worse was that it then took her four chipping attempts just to keep the ball on the putting surface. She'd gone on to make her putt for a 9, walking a way with a quad, that could (and should) have been a par at the very least.

And while it is jarring to see one of the most talented golfers in the world partake it what appeared to be haphazard course management—the takeaway isn't that Charley Hull is mortal like you and me—it's that golf, especially links golf, doesn't care who you are, you are at its mercy.

Earlier in the week Hull admitted that she had to get it out of her head that she isn't cut out for links golf, because she is capable, she just has to tap into that more cerebral part of her game. "I feel like there is a little bit of luck involved [with links golf] and a lot of patience involved because you can get bad bounces, and you can get -- have funky shots and stuff. So you just have to accept them and just kind of just deal with it. You have to forget about it and move on."

On links-style courses, disaster rarely arrives all at once, it comes in pieces. A missed fairway leads to an awkward lie, that awkward lie can lead to a conservative recovery shot, that recovery can catch a slope wrong, and suddenly a hole that looked harmless five minutes ago has become a scorecard crime scene.

Which is exactly what happened to the 30-year-old on the par-5 fifth. She tried to run a hybrid onto the green from 255 yards (meters?) out but found the rough. From there she then hit her pitch shot to about 15 feet for her birdie putt...and well, you know the rest.

But the point it, is that any golfer, from a 15-handicapper to someone's who scratch, can make a 9, the difference with Hull is that her mistakes don't come from inconsistency, they often come from operating on the absolute edge in a game where inches certainly matter. And that's what we saw play out today.

Hull headed her own advice, she moved on quickly by making seven consecutive pars after that. She'd make just one birdie on the day and to carded a 6-over par 78.

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