Evian Championship: Charley Hull withdraws mid-round on opening day of main as a consequence of sickness | Golf Information

Charley Hull has withdrawn from the Evian Championship mid-round as a consequence of sickness.

The Englishwoman was one underneath after 12 holes of her opening spherical on the Evian Golf Resort when she withdrew, with Hull exiting the course by way of the again of a golf buggy on a stretcher.

Hull cancelled a bogey on the par-four tenth with a birdie on the subsequent, then took benefit of the par-five fifteenth and birdied the seventeenth to maneuver two underneath for her spherical.

She bogeyed the par-five 18th and began her second 9 with a run of pars, with Hull seen sat down and being sheltered underneath an umbrella – by her caddie – on the third gap.

Golf Channel reported that Hull collapsed to the bottom on the fourth tee field, with the group behind her allowed to play by to allow Hull to obtain medical remedy.

Hull then fell to the bottom once more after hitting her tee shot and led to her withdrawal, with reviews indicating that she had been struggling with a virus.

The world No 19’s withdrawal left her taking part in companions finishing their opening spherical as a two-ball, with world No 4 Ruoning Yin carding a one-over 72 and Haeran Ryu struggling to an eight-over 79.

Hull was trying to problem for a maiden main victory, having posted back-to-back tied-Twelfth finishes on the US Girls’s Open and KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship over the previous month.

The 29-year-old additionally completed fourth on the KPMG Girls’s Irish Open final week, gained by beginner Lottie Woad. Hull is scheduled to subsequent function on the ISPS HANDA Girls’s Scottish Open from July 24-27.

Johnson: Hull withdrawal ‘unhappy information’

Sky Sports activities’ Trish Johnson:

“Gutting, is not it. This can be a large three weeks in girls’s golf – you’ve got acquired this week, the Girls’s Scottish Open after which after all the AIG Girls’s Open at Royal Porthcawl.

“This golf course, if she drives the ball effectively, she will eat it up as a result of she’s such a long-hitter. She’s all the time a kind of gamers that you simply get enthusiastic about watching, as a result of her recreation is so entertaining. It is actually disappointing.

“She did effectively to present it a go, if she’s that unhealthy. Clearly very unhappy information and let’s hope she will get higher in a short time.”

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