LPGA star Charley Hull resumes the quest for her first major title this week at the 2026 Chevron Championship. While Hull will be too busy playing to catch much action on TV, this week presents the type of golf she still enjoys watching.
However, the genre of golf male pros play most weeks on the PGA Tour is not the popular English pro’s cup of tea.
Hull revealed that she doesn’t “really watch golf” when she’s not competing and laid one specific reason she finds the modern pro game “boring” in her Chevron Championship press conference.
Charley Hull on modern golf: ‘It’s quite boring watching a birdiefest’
Hull, 30, has three LPGA wins in her career and is currently ranked No. 4 in the world. She turned pro way back in 2013, and in that time she’s seen pro golf change drastically.
Those changes hit the men’s game hardest, where increases in distance has turned every regular PGA Tour event into a “birdiefest,” as Hull described them on Tuesday.
The majors, on the other hand, have undergone less change. In both the men’s and women’s game, major courses typically feature treacherous setups meant to provide fierce challenges to the best players in the game.
Hull is expecting this week’s Chevron Championship to follow that tradition, requiring players to hit long irons into many greens. That’s exactly how Hull thinks it should be at a major, and why she doesn’t usually watch non-major golf on TV.
To put it more simply, she prefers watching pros “when they’re struggling.”
“I much prefer that. I think that’s the way golf should be. It’s way more interesting,” Hull said on Tuesday at the Chevron. “I don’t really watch golf, but when I watch the men’s golf I watch the majors and I enjoy it a lot more when they’re struggling on the golf course. I think it’s a lot more fun.”
She then put a finer point on her issue with the golf played at most pro golf tournaments, which, in her view of the PGA Tour, has turned into a driver-wedge game.
“It’s quite boring watching a birdiefest. All you see is hitting a long drive, hitting a wedge on the green and holing a putt,” Hull said.
Memorial Park is a perfect example for Hull’s argument. While she expects it to play tough this week for the LPGA’s first major of the year, it plays very differently at the PGA Tour’s annual Texas Children’s Houston Open. At this year’s Houston Open, Gary Woodland dominated Memorial Park with a winning score of 21 under.
Hull continued by saying she preferred the pro golf played decades ago, when it was more of an “art.”
“It’s nice to see golf be played as an art, like when they have to create shots,” she explained. “I much prefer that. That’s why I preferred golf 20, 30 years ago.”
