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Daily Record
11 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Record
Golf star Charley Hull relives scary double collapse as quick thinking medic averts disaster
Hull almost cracked her head on a concrete slab as she fainted at the women's Major before being carted off the scene. Charley Hull has lifted the lid on the 'scary' moment when she collapsed twice on course. The English star opened up on the frightening events two weeks ago at the Evian Championship. Hull almost cracked her head on a concrete slab as she fainted at the women's Major before being carted off the scene. The 29-year-old is getting back to herself, but, as she prepared for the start of the ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open at Dundonald, she opened up in Ayrshire on the harrowing incident. Hull said: 'It was scary, but it was weird. It was actually quite scary, but at the time, I just wanted to finish my round. So I was gutted that I didn't. But I don't know if anyone ever fainted before. 'When I woke up from fainting I felt like I'd come out of a really nice deep sleep. I felt really nice. I was like: Oh, this feels good. That's not my bedroom. I see birds above me and about 15 people around me and I was like, where the f--- am I? Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to swear. But yeah, that's what I see when it happened. 'I was feeling really rough on the Monday and I was being sick all day because I flew home after Ireland. And then Tuesday I woke up and I still wasn't feeling very well. 'I had a practice round and I was just so tired. All my bones were aching in my body and I had a really high temperature. "Next day I played the Pro-Am and I soldiered through because I didn't want to let my Pro-Am team down. But I felt really rough and all my bones were aching still. 'Then I woke up on Thursday and I felt really dizzy, cold sweats, had no energy. I got through about 12 holes and was actually playing really solid golf. I teed off on the back nine, so third hole of the course, which was my 12th hole, I felt really dizzy and I was in the bunker hitting a fairway shot and I had to sit down for a minute because my eyesight went and my hearing went. "I don't know if anyone has ever fainted before, but your eyesight goes and then your hearing goes and then it goes all muffled. So I sat down, got up, hit my bunker shot, actually nearly made birdie. Walked to the next tee, called the medics and then before I hit my tee shot, my eyesight went again, my hearing went and then my knees gave away and I collapsed and fainted. 'Then I got back up, hit my tee shot. I was thinking, I've only got six holes left. I've got some birdie holes. Just finish the day, get to three-or-four-under and I'm sound. 'Walked off the tee box, 20 yards off, I don't even remember anything. My caddie said my eyes rolled to the back of my head and I was out for over a minute. And the security guard and the medic caught me just before I was about to hit my head on a concrete slab. So I was out for a minute. 'Every time I stood up, I fainted. That's why I had to get a stretcher out, which was quite embarrassing, but there you go. IV drip on me. They took my blood pressure. It was 80/50 which is quite low. My blood sugar was 0.4. I think I just had a really bad virus. 'Then I asked my agent, Vicky, to text the Commissioner saying: Is there any chance Charley can finish her round this evening? Obviously you can't but I was gutted. I just had no energy since then, really. 'I still don't feel a hundred percent now, like, 80 percent. Probably won't see me strolling 30 yards ahead of everyone [this week] like I usually do. Probably be 30 yards behind everyone, but I'll get it done. 'I'm not going to go to the gym for another two weeks. Need my immune system to check up with myself. 'There's a lot of swine flu going around. There's a lot of COVID going around and my cousin actually had COVID and she was in Ireland with me. I've not seen her for two weeks and she started feeling pretty ill and I started feeling pretty ill.'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Ryder Cup training camp is shaping up for the first fall PGA Tour event in Napa
Nelly Korda, of USA, plays on the 2nd hole during the last round of the Evian Championship women's golf tournament, in Evian, eastern France, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani) Xander Schauffele of the United States acknowledges the crowd on the 18th green during the final round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) USA's Bryson DeChambeau on the 18th green during the final round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP) Scottie Scheffler of the United States play his tee shot on the 6th during the final round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) Scottie Scheffler of the United States play his tee shot on the 6th during the final round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) Nelly Korda, of USA, plays on the 2nd hole during the last round of the Evian Championship women's golf tournament, in Evian, eastern France, Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani) Xander Schauffele of the United States acknowledges the crowd on the 18th green during the final round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) USA's Bryson DeChambeau on the 18th green during the final round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (Mike Egerton/PA via AP) Scottie Scheffler of the United States play his tee shot on the 6th during the final round of the British Open golf championship at the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison) PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — So much for all the PGA Tour fall events having weak fields. The Procore Championship in Napa, California, is shaping up to be training camp for the Ryder Cup for the American team to avoid getting rusty ahead of the Sept. 26-28 matches. Advertisement 'I know I'll be there,' Scottie Scheffler said. Ditto for Xander Schauffele, who suggested the world's No. 1 player was a strong voice in urging whoever is on the U.S. team to be at Silverado Resort on Sept. 11-14. That was a big concern at the last Ryder Cup, held outside Rome in 2023. The PGA Tour season that year ended Aug. 27 with the Tour Championship at East Lake, and the majority of the team had a full month away from tournament golf before going to Marco Simone for the start of the Ryder Cup on Sept. 29. Justin Thomas and Max Homa were the only players in Napa, along with U.S. captain Zach Johnson. Europe had its players at the BMW PGA Championship in England. Team Europe got out to a fast start at Marco Simone and sailed to an easy victory to win back the cup. Advertisement The Procore Championship is the only PGA Tour event on the schedule between the Tour Championship and the Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black in New York. It also is the same week as the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Odds are against having all 12 of the Americans there — one of them is Bryson DeChambeau, who is banned from the PGA Tour because he's with LIV Golf. U.S. captain Keegan Bradley told Sports Illustrated he would use one of his six picks on DeChambeau, who finished in the top 10 at three of the four majors this year. 'Bryson is going to be a very important piece to us winning the Ryder Cup,' Bradley said in a text message to SI. "He brings so much. He brings energy, passion but most importantly, he's one of the best players on the planet.' Advertisement The LIV Golf League season ends Aug. 24 with its team championship in Michigan. The only other competition for DeChambeau would be a YouTube match or European tour stops in Switzerland, Ireland, England or France. Justin Leonard on the rise Justin Leonard played four rounds of competition last week for the first time in eight years, making the cut at the British Open and finishing in a tie for 59th. Leonard, 53, stayed largely away from golf while working as a TV analyst, and this is only his third year playing a full PGA Tour Champions schedule. He had not played in the British Open since 2016 at Royal Troon — where he won The Open in 1997 — and he was pleased to be among three players 50 and older to make the weekend at Royal Portrush. Lee Westwood and Phil Mickelson were the others. Advertisement 'It's a different kind of pressure coming over here and playing as a PGA Tour Champions guy,' Leonard said. 'There aren't many expectations. But still, it's nice to come over and play well and justify coming over.' And then Leonard with his dry sense of humor found a perk to his performance. 'Plus, think of all the world ranking points I got this week,' he said 'We've done a hard reset on the ranking. It's rough thinking there are more than 4,000 golfers out there better than I am. But I proved them all wrong this week.' His world ranking going into Royal Portrush was No. 4,689. Leonard's tie for 59th moved him all the way to No. 1,436. So now there are only 1,435 players better than him. Advertisement But he has one thing going for him. Leonard has a better world ranking than Tiger Woods (No. 1,626) for the first time since the first week of 1997. Hard reset, indeed. Senior European vacation The PGA Tour Champions is taking its show out of the country next year with the Portugal Invitational set for July 31 to Aug. 2. It's part of a five-year partnership and will be the first time a PGA Tour-sanctioned event for stroke play is in Portugal. That will give the PGA Tour Champions players the chance of a three-week stay in Europe if they choose. The Senior British Open is the week before, and the Senior PGA Championship on the Legends Tour will be the week after. Advertisement The 78-man field will have players from the PGA Tour Champions and the Legends Tour in Europe, with a total purse of $3 million at The Els Club Vilamoura. Ernie Els redesigned the course, which previously hosted the Portugal Masters from 2007 through 2022. The World Cup of Golf was held in Portugal in 2005. 'The players are going to love it, not just the golf course but this whole destination,' Els said. "It's such a beautiful part of the world.' Major cuts Xander Schauffele made it through a third consecutive year making the cut in every major, taking his total to 15 in a row dating to a weekend off in the 2022 Masters. Advertisement The opposite end of that was Cameron Smith, who missed the cut in all of them. He nearly had some distinguished company. Two other major champions, Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson, missed the cut in three out of four. Schauffele was among 17 players to make the cut in all four majors. That includes Corey Conners, who made the cut in the U.S. Open but had to withdraw in the final round with injury. Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton were the only players from LIV Golf to make the cut in all four majors. That's a smaller sample size considering the goal for so many LIV players is to simply qualify or otherwise get into a major. Calamity Corner Advertisement Scottie Scheffler had no such concerns at 'Calamity Corner,' the notorious par-3 16th hole at Royal Portrush for the British Open. He made birdie in the opening round and again on Friday. He began to build his lead with a third straight birdie on Saturday. And in the final round, he drilled his tee shot to 15 feet. He missed. 'It's just a hard hole, I guess,' Scheffler said with a laugh. Calamity Corner does not have quite the same familiarity as the 12th hole at Augusta National, so one more birdie might not have been as noteworthy as the time Scott Verplank made birdie all four rounds in the 2003 Masters. Advertisement Scheffler thought back to the first time he played it in a practice round. 'It was raining and blowing in out of the left, and I smoked a 3-wood to 30 feet, and I thought it was a pretty amazing shot,' Scheffler said. 'And then I was playing against Sam Burns in a practice round, and he hit 3-wood to about 25 feet and made it.' Divots Even though Nelly Korda hasn't won this year, her seven-win season in 2024 gave her such a big lead that she's still No. 1 in women's golf. Korda has been No. 1 for 70 consecutive weeks, the fifth-largest streak since the women's world ranking began in 2006. ... Scottie Scheffler registered his fourth victory of at least four shots at the British Open, the most PGA Tour titles by four shots or more since Tiger Woods did it five times in 2000. ... Xander Schauffele tied for seventh in the British Open and earned $451,834, moving him past $60 million in career PGA Tour earnings. Scheffler became the fourth player to surpass $90 in career tour money. Advertisement Stat of the week Scottie Scheffler, Harris English and Chris Gotterup gave Americans a 1-2-3 finish in the British Open for the first time since 1998, when it was Mark O'Meara, Brian Watts and Tiger Woods. Final word 'I've gotten everything I wanted out of this week apart from a claret jug, and that's just because one person was just a little bit better than the rest of us.' — Rory McIlroy on his return home to Northern Ireland for the British Open. ___ AP golf:
Otago Daily Times
3 days ago
- Sport
- Otago Daily Times
Five tied for early lead at Evian Champs
Five women fired rounds of 65 to take the first-round lead yesterday at the Evian Championship, the fourth of five LPGA majors on the season. Americans Jennifer Kupcho and Andrea Lee, Australians Grace Kim and Gabriela Ruffels, and Leona Maguire of Ireland all share the lead at 6-under at the Evian Resort Golf Club in Evian-les-Bains, France. Despite the crowd at the top, Maguire could perhaps nevertheless claim day-one bragging rights after she made a hole-in-one as part of her round, acing the par-3 second hole with her tee shot from 150m. A stroke back from the leading bunch at 66 is Minjee Lee of Australia, who won the Women's PGA Championship in June. Two more strokes behind after rounds of 67 sits a group of nine that includes world No 1 Nelly Korda, defending champion Ayake Furue of Japan and another native of Japan, Mao Saigo, who won the season's first major at The Chevron Championship in April. Bogies blotted the day for New Zealand's world No 3 Lydia Ko, who shot a two-over 73 to be eight shots behind the leaders and tied in 76th place. Ko, who won the event in 2015, is now in danger of missing the cut. — Field Level Media / additional reporting APL
Hypebeast
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Slowing Down, Speeding Up: A Hypegolf Weekend in Évian
Évian-les-Bains is a place that invites you to slow down. Perched above Lake Léman in the French Alps, it's long been a destination for mineral water pilgrims and luxury-minded travelers. But during theAmundi Evian Championship, the pace picks up, especially when there's a major title on the line andPorscheis in the mix. This year, we traveled to the tournament with Porsche to explore their role as a mobility partner and presence on the ground. The course itself is carved into a hillside, with much of the action clustered near the clubhouse. It made for a walkable, almost festival-like layout on holes 15 through 18, where crowds bounced between tee boxes and greens. On the 16th Porsche hosted a hole-in-one challenge, putting aTaycan Turbo Sin play for both pros and amateurs competing in the pro-am. It added just a little more pressure to an already pivotal stretch. Between rounds, we made our way to the Porsche Public Village, where the brand had brought out the 911 Spirit 70. The entire activation carried the iconic Pasha pattern—a checkerboard motif from the 70s—from the car to the signage to the espresso bar where fans queued up for complimentary drinks between swings. It struck the right balance of premium on one hand, and accessible on the other. On Saturday evening, we had the chance to test drive theMacan4S through alpine roads above town. Winding switchbacks, panoramic views and golden hour light against the hillside made for yet another highlight in a weekend full of them. Back on the course, Sunday brought real drama. Lottie Woad made history, shooting the lowest final round ever by an amateur at the Amundi Evian Championship. But it was Grace Kim who held on, battling through a playoff to secure her first career major title. From morning lake views to sunset finishes, Porsche found a way to match the rhythm of the week. Precise when it mattered and easygoing when it didn't. That's a rare gear to have. If you're interested in learning more about the 911 Spirit 70, you can head over to Porsche'swebsite.
Straits Times
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Straits Times
England's Lottie Woad turns pro at age 21 and joins LPGA Tour
Find out what's new on ST website and app. Lottie Woad shot a final-round 64 to share third at the Evian Championship in France on July 13. MIAMI – England's Lottie Woad, coming off a victory at the Women's Irish Open and her best Major finish, said on July 15 that she has decided to turn professional and join the LPGA Tour. The 21-year-old from Farnham became the world amateur No. 1 in June and became the first amateur since 2022 to win a Ladies European Tour event when she captured the Irish crown by six strokes on July 6. On July 13, Woad shot a final-round 64 to share third at the Evian Championship in France, her best finish ever at a women's Major, setting the stage for her announcement on social media. Woad's Major result was enough to qualify her for an LPGA membership through the LPGA Elite Amateur Pathway (LEAP) programme, becoming the first player to earn a spot that way. 'I am very excited to announce that I've decided to turn professional,' Woad posted on social media. 'I'm delighted to have secured a @LPGA card through the LEAP. I'm also happy to accept membership of the @LETgolf for 2026. Thank you to everyone who has helped me get to this position.' It did not take her long to decide to accept pro status. After the final round at Evian Resort Golf Club on July 13, she said she planned to ponder her future. 'Just going to use next week at home with family and coaches to kind of discuss the options and then I'll decide after that,' she said. 'I've always wanted to play on the LPGA,' she continued. 'Whenever that is, it's going to be really fun and I just look forward to playing all the events.' Woad is scheduled to make her professional debut at the Women's Scottish Open from July 24 to 27 at Dundonald Links, a berth she earned with her victory in Ireland. She is also set to play in the Women's British Open, the final Major of the year. It will be played from July 31 to Aug 3 at Royal Porthcawl in Wales. Woad shared 10th in the 2024 edition at St Andrews. Woad, whose triumphs include the 2024 Augusta National Women's Amateur, had been playing for Florida State University. The Englishwoman will forego her senior season at Florida State. She holds the Seminoles' record for career stroke average at 70.42. Woad will have LPGA Tour status for the remainder of 2025 and all of 2026, but a tour statement said the remainder of her LPGA schedule for this season remains uncertain. AFP, REUTERS
