[PHOTO: Julio Aguilar]
Lexi Thompson announced her retirement overnight, but that huge women’s golf news has now been overshadowed by one thing and one thing only: Charley Hull signing autographs at the US Women’s Open with a cigarette dangling from her mouth. This is how you promote a major.
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The world No.8, six-time LPGA Tour winner and Northamptonshire girl is a Brit through and through, even as she’s handing out an autograph for what looks to be a Pennsylvanian tween. Perhaps that’s not the best example to set for impressionable young fans, but she’s just following in the footsteps of John Daly, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan. That’s mighty fine company to be in.
Now, we can’t in good conscience recommend you follow suit, but let’s see how she fares at the US Women’s Open. Who are we, typing away on our company-mandated laptops, to judge how a 28-year-old, multi-millionaire professional athlete treats her body? We have no doubt that she would pulverise us up and down the course, even (especially?) if she had a cigarette in her mouth.
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