AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND - Charley Hull’s prize for winning a playoff 10 years ago at Turnberry wasn’t a trophy but rather a return to her Nintendo DS. The then 9-year-old Hull won the Health Perception Great Britain Amateur Championship on this course and the now 19-year-old vividly recalls her reaction upon hearing the news that she was heading into a playoff.

“I came in and it was raining. I remember just wanting to come in and play my Nintendo DS,” Hull said. “And I had to go out in a playoff, and a member was like, ‘No, Charley, you’ve got to go out and play.’ And I was like ‘I don’t want to. I want to carry on playing like this.’ I won on the second playoff hole and then I ran in and played again on my Nintendo DS.”

Hull was just a kid then, but her playoff competitor “was like 35,” Hull recalls. A lot has changed since then. She hits it about 150 yards further, and she weighs enough to not be blown away by the coastal wind.

“It was like 50-mile-per-hour winds and I fell over, the wind blew me over on the 11^th hole, the par 3,” Hull said.

Old enough to stand her ground in the wind and now equipped with the type of game that she believes can not only contend but win a major. She finished T12 at the British a year ago after a third-round 66 and feels like she’s more capable of streaming four great rounds in a row together than she was a year ago.

“Well, so far this year, I was leading quite a few times after the second or first round and just fell away quite a little bit,” Hull said. “I’m still young, and I feel like I’m ready to win a major. It’s just got to put all four rounds together. But I’m getting there and I feel like my swing is in a better place and I feel like I’m a better player this year as well. We’ll see hopefully.”

Maybe even as soon as Sunday with a prize awaiting older than her Nintendo DS.

Where's my Nintendo?

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