Charley Hull has been grouped alongside world No 1 Nelly Korda and defending champion Lilia Vu for the primary two rounds of the AIG Girls’s Open at St Andrews.
Korda received the Chevron Championship earlier this season as a part of a run of six LPGA Tour victories in seven begins, whereas Vu appears to be like to change into the primary back-to-back winner of the occasion since Yani Tseng in 2011 after final yr’s six-shot victory over Hull.
Hull’s runner-up end at Walton Heath was certainly one of two in majors final yr, with the world No 10 seeking to change into the primary Englishwoman to win a serious since Georgia Corridor’s victory at this occasion in 2018.
The star-studded trio have been given a late-early draw for the opening two days across the iconic Outdated Course, with their group scheduled to tee off at 1.10pm for Thursday’s first spherical earlier than beginning at 7.55am on Friday.
A two-tee begin is getting used for the primary two days at St Andrews, with Lexi Thompson among the many early starters from the tenth tee as she begins what’s probably her remaining AIG Girls’s Open look.
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Lexi Thompson introduced on the US Girls’s Open that she intends to step again from full-time golf on the finish of the season
Thompson tees off at 7.44am on Thursday with Australia’s Minjee Lee and Scotland’s Gemma Dryburgh, who wants a powerful week on dwelling soil to spice up Solheim Cup qualification hopes, with 2018 champion Georgia Corridor out within the subsequent group alongside Rose Zhang and Evian Championship winner Ayaka Furue.
Olympic champion Lydia Ko is within the afternoon wave alongside France’s Celine Boutier and American Ally Ewing, whereas former AIG Girls’s Open champions Ashleigh Buhai and Jin Younger Ko have Eire’s Leona Maguire of their threeball.
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Play is scheduled to start at 7am over the primary two days, with 144 gamers within the subject, whereas the ultimate teams will start on each days at 2.16pm.
Chosen R1 tee occasions (all occasions BST)
USA until said; * denotes ranging from tenth tee
*0744 Minjee Lee (Aus), Lexi Thompson, Gemma Dryburgh (Sco)
*0755 Georgia Corridor (Eng), Ayaka Furue (Jpn), Rose Zhang
1226 Celine Boutier (Fra), Lydia Ko (Nzl), Ally Ewing
1237 Ashleigh Buhai (Rsa), Jin Younger Ko (Kor), Leona Maguire (Irl)
1310 Lilia Vu, Nelly Korda, Charley Hull (Eng)
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Forward of the AIG Girls’s Open, Charley Hull surprises a nine-year-old fan and invitations her to play the primary gap across the Outdated Course at St Andrews!
When is the AIG Girls’s Open on Sky?
Sky Sports activities can have prolonged reside protection from the ultimate ladies’s main of the yr, with seven hours of reside motion for every event day from noon and day by day one-hour highlights to look again at one of the best of the earlier rounds’ motion on Sky Sports activities Golf.
You may obtain the Sky Sports activities App to get information, interviews, highlights, clips, leaderboard scores and a devoted weblog, whereas different particular AIG Girls’s Open programming shall be out there to obtain by way of Sky Sports activities On Demand.
Sky Sports activities+ which has formally launched and shall be built-in into Sky TV, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports activities app, giving Sky Sports activities prospects entry to over 50 per cent extra reside sport this yr at no additional price. Discover out extra right here.
