Charley Hull admits 'I'm not a team player' despite Solheim Cup success

Charley Hull sat down with Kira K. Dixon for Augusta National’s “Under the Umbrellas” series last week. The 30-year-old Englishwoman wore the women’s version of the pale yellow bird print from Malbon that Jason Day wore at the Masters, causing a stir.

Dixon asked if she was a birder.

“Well, I like to make birdies and eagles,” quipped Hull, who noted that fashion for women has come a long way since she wore boys' golf clothes growing up.

This marked Hull’s first time at Augusta National since 2014, when she played in the Kraft Nabisco (now Chevron Championship) not long after turning 18 and winning her first professional event on the LET. In contention going into Sunday, Hull said on national television that she’d love to go to the Masters the next week, but she couldn’t get tickets.

The public plea worked. Hull flew to Augusta and thought she’d landed in “golf heaven.”

“I think I had every sandwich here last time and everything,” said Hull, “ ... I went back home and my mom was like, you put on a little bit of weight.”

Hull, who won earlier this year on the LET in Saudi Arabia, currently ranks fourth in the world and has three top-20 finishes in four starts on the LPGA this season. In September, she’ll represent Europe for the eighth time on the Solheim Cup.

She revealed to Dixon that her podcast host, Mel Reid, is her all-time favorite Solheim Cup partner. Dixon and Reid host a weekly show called “Quiet Please! With Mel and Kira.”

Though she loves the biennial competition, Hull admitted to Dixon that going from an individual sport to a team one every two years isn’t easy for her.

“I am a very individual player,” Hull explained. “I'm going to openly say this, like, I'm not a team player. Like, I'm not. So it's very hard for me to be in a team environment. I like to eat when I want to eat. I like to go to sleep when I want to go to sleep. I like to rock up to a practice session and go the golf course when I want to.

"But getting on that team bus every morning, it is a pretty cool atmosphere. And, like, it takes a little while to get used to, but it's just once every two years, and it is very enjoyable.”

Hull will skip this week's JM Eagle LA Championship, making her next start at the LPGA's first major of the season, the Chevron.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Charley Hull on Solheim Cup, Augusta sandwiches