Charley Hull didn’t expect much of herself coming into this week at the 2025 AIG Women’s Open at Royal Porthcawl. She had been getting over a virus that knocked her out of the Amundi Evian Championship, she tweaked her back getting a box out of her car, she had been hitting it poorly and she doesn’t really vibe with links golf.

Through two rounds in Wales, Hull’s prediction proved prescient. She entered Saturday 11 shots back of Miyu Yamashita and didn’t look like she’d be a weekend factor. But Hull found something in the third round, pouring in seven birdies in a six-under round to vault up the leaderboard and get within three of Yamashita.

On Sunday, Hull teed it up along the shores of Rest Beach with a chance to hunt down Yamashita and win her first major championship.

Hull came

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