LPGA star reveals 1 reason men’s golf is ‘boring’: ‘I don’t watch’

LPGA star Charley Hull resumes his quest for his first major title this week at the 2026 Chevron Championship. Although Hull will be too busy playing to catch much on TV, this week he presents the kind of golf he still likes to watch.

However, the type of golf male pros play for weeks on the PGA Tour is not the famous English pro’s cup of tea.

Hull revealed that he “doesn’t really watch golf” when he’s not competing and gave one specific reason why he finds the modern game “boring” at his Chevron Championship press conference.

Charley Hull on modern golf: ‘It’s really boring to watch a birdiefest’

Hull, 30, has won three LPGA titles in his career and is currently ranked No. 4 in the world. He turned pro back in 2013, and in that time he has seen pro golf change a lot.

Those changes have hit the men’s game hard, where the increased distance has turned every regular PGA Tour event into a “birdie game,” as Hull described it Tuesday.

The majors, on the other hand, have changed little. In both the men’s and women’s game, major courses often feature tricky setups intended to provide tough challenges to the best players in the game.

Hull expects this week’s Chevron Championship to follow that tradition, requiring players to hit long irons into many greens. That’s exactly how Hull thinks it should be, and why he rarely watches non-major golf on TV.

To put it simply, he prefers to watch the experts “when they’re struggling.”

“I much prefer that. I think that’s the way golf should be. It’s more interesting,” Hull said Tuesday at Chevron. “I don’t really watch golf, but when I watch men’s golf I watch the majors and I really enjoy it when it’s hard on the golf course. I think it’s a lot of fun.”

He then makes the best point of his story about tournament golf, which, in his view, the PGA Tour has become a driver’s game.

“It’s really boring to watch a birdiefest. All you see is a long drive, hitting the green and you hole the putt,” Hull said.

Memorial Park is a perfect example of Hull’s argument. While he expects to play tough this week in the LPGA’s first major of the year, it’s a very different kind of play at the PGA Tour’s annual Texas Children’s Houston Open. At this year’s Houston Open, Gary Woodland dominated Memorial Park with a winning score of 21 under.

Hull went on to say that he prefers the championship golf played decades ago, when it was more “artistic”.

“It’s fun to see golf being played as an art, like when they have to make shots,” he explained. “I much prefer that. That’s why I chose golf 20, 30 years ago.”

Hull later revealed that “pretty much the only tournament I watch is the Masters or the men’s British Open. I find it very entertaining to watch.”

Although Hull have never won a major trophy, they have come remarkably close on several occasions. He finished T2 at the 2016 Chevron Championship, to go with T7 in 2014 and T6 in 2018. She also earned a T2 at the 2023 US Women’s Open and has twice finished second at the AIG Women’s Open in 2023 and 2025.