England’s Charley Hull to finally claim her first major title at the Chevron Championship

Charley Hull, of England, plays her shot from the third tee during the first round of the LPGA CME Group Tour Championship golf tournament,

Fresh off the back of Scottie Scheffler’s win at Augusta National last week, we’re now all set for the first women’s major of the year with the Chevron Championship in Texas this week.

World No 1 Nelly Korda is chasing fifth-straight win to continue her remarkable 2024, while defending champion Lilia Vu is hoping to add to the two major titles she secured last year.

Lilia Vu holds the trophy after her playoff win against Angel Yin in the Chevron Championship women’s golf tournament at The Club at Carlton Woods on Sunday, April 23, 2023, in The Woodlands, Texas.
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But what of the Brits? Are there any British and Irish contenders present among the 132-strong field? Here, we take a closer look at some of the home hopes ahead of the tournament…

Arguably the best golfer in the women’s game yet to win a major, the 28-year-old English hope came agonisingly close to changing that in 2023 – twice!

Hull finished tied for second in the US Women’s Open at Pebble Beach before then being beaten by a relentless Vu on the final day of her home major at the Women’s British Open.

Well, here you go Charley… The first major championship of 2024, go take it!

Georgia Hall

The only member of this field to have already tasted success at a major championship, with Hall’s win coming on home soil at the Women’s British Open in 2018.

The 27-year-old has struggled to turn that triumph into consistent final-day challenges at major championships since, with just three top-10 finishes across the five tournaments in the five years that have followed.

2023 in particular appeared to promise so much when, heading into last year’s Chevron Championship, Hall bagged herself two second-placed finishes on the LPGA Tour.

That form has since deserted her, however, with only one top-10 placing on the tour since and a fifth-placed finish on the Amraco Team Series in London last summer her best showing on the Ladies European Tour. Is this the week when she turns things around?

Lottie Woad
The only amateur among the British contingent, with the English 20-year-old earning her spot in stunning style by becoming the first European to win the Augusta National Women’s Amateur in early April.

Her career-best return came when finishing runner-up by two strokes to In-Kyung Kim at the 2017 Women’s British Open but, despite being a regular challenger on tour and a three-time Solheim Cup selection, a first LPGA Tour success eluded her until two years ago at the Mediheal Championship.

A somewhat surprising omission from Europe’s victorious Solheim squad last year, Ewart Shadoff will be extra keen not to miss out on their defence Stateside later this year… Currently ranked 69th in the world, a strong showing at the majors, starting this week, will certainly aid her cause.

Arguably the form player of the bunch, the 29-year-old from County Cavan in Ireland was edged out by Korda in the latest of her LPGA triumphs in the championship match of the T-Mobile Match Play in Las Vegas in early April.

Maguire had earned the top seed in the match-play bracket by going six under through 54 holes of stroke play. She then defeated Thailand’s Moriya Jutanugarn 4&3 and South Korea’s Sei Young Kim 3&2 in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, respectively, before faltering against Korda.

Her match play prowess will be of no great surprise to followers of the Solheim Cup who have watched her tear it up to the tune of 4.5 points from five matches in 2021 and three in 2023 – both successes for Team Europe.

So far the majors have proven hard to conquer for Maguire, with a tied-fourth finish at the 2022 Women’s British Open her best yet, but she’s certainly got the game to change all that.

Gemma Dryburgh
Gemma Dryburgh (Associated Press)
The 30-year-old Scot enjoyed quite the rise when, off the back of a first LPGA Tour win at the Toto Japan Classic in November 2022, she catapulted herself into the world’s top 100.

Dryburgh showed it was far from a flash in the pan as she kicked on to a career-high ranking of 50 last year, earning herself a maiden Solheim Cup spot as one of the four captain’s picks in Suzann Pettersen’s victorious squad.

Her best-yet finish at a major also came last year as she finished eighth at the Evian Championship in France which was ultimately claimed by home favourite Boutier.

Can she improve on that this week? Two top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour already this year point to her game being in a strong enough state to see her in the mix come Sunday.

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The first women’s major of the year, The Chevron Championship, is live from 3pm this Thursday, with the next men’s major, the PGA Championship at Valhalla in Kentucky, taking place from May 16-19.