Charley Hull wants The Open to return to Donald Trump’s Turnberry and hopes women’s events can be held at the Scottish course, too.
Trump Turnberry was removed from the R&A’s roster of Open venues back in 2021, in the wake of the US Capitol riots on January 6.
Trump has also come under fire over the eye-watering green fees for the iconic Ailsa links course – which has hosted four Open Championships.
Visitors will now have to pay £1,000 ($1,285) for 18 holes or £545 ($700) to play after 1pm.
But Hull – who recently went viral for her smoking habits – played the Ailsa Course this week and branded it ‘one of the best in the world’.
Charley Hull wants both The Open and women’s golf events to be held at Trump Turnberry
The former US President (pictured at Turnberry) bought the iconic course in Scotland in 2014
The world No 11 said Trump Turnberry – which was bought by the former US President in 2014 – should host major championship golf once more.
‘A hundred per cent,’ Hull said. ‘It’s a shame, it’s a really top track… I love being out on the course, and the views on that golf course are brilliant. It was so much fun.’
The English golfer was speaking ahead of the Women’s Open, which takes place at St Andrews later this month, and Hull wants Turnberry to host women’s tournaments, too.
Trump has come under fire over the eye-watering green fees for the iconic Ailsa links course
Hull missed out on a medal at the recent Olympics in Paris, finishing in a tie for 27th place
‘Honestly, it’s one of the best golf courses in the world. It would be a shame not to be on there.’
Hull finished in a tie for 27th in the Paris Olympics last week but the 28-year-old is hoping to build on last year’s second-place finish at the Women’s Open.
‘I would say the U.S. Open and the British Open is the two top events for me,’ she said.
‘(It’s) obviously on home soil and is one we always dream of, That and the US Open are always the ones you dream of winning as a little girl.’
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