
Charley Hull fired off a bogey-free 9-under 63 to set a new career low and lead the Ford Championship at Whirlwind Golf Club in Phoenix, Arizona.
Her 63 marks the lowest start for the veteran as she is eyeing her third LPGA win.
Incredibly, she pulled off the feat after starting her day running seven kilometers (nearly 4.5 miles). She wasn’t done at the gym though. She did some row work and spent two hours working out.
The workout regimine coincides with Hull having recently quit smoking!
Then she hit up the course.
Hull started the day on the back nine with back-to-back pars. Then, she went nuclear on the golf course. The English golfer added birdies at 12, 14, 16 and 17 to turn in 32 shots.
Hull was far from done.
She kept the birdie fest going on her back nine, as she began with three straight. The 29-year-old added her fourth and fifth birdie at the par 4 5th and par 5 7th to come home in 31.
Hull did not miss a single green in regulation on Thursday and credited a couple of things to her success.

Photo by Mike Mulholland/Getty Images
“I tweaked my driver at the beginning of the week,” Hull said. “I had Adrian from TaylorMade here, and we were working on that, the new driver, and I really, really, really hit it well today. I felt like that put me in a lot of good positions.”
“I putted pretty well. I chipped pretty well. I hit it pretty well with my iron shots. I don’t think I missed a green and didn’t really miss any fairways. I was hitting it good and just felt confident. Yeah, just felt good out there.”
Despite shooting a career low, Hull felt she left shots out on the course.
“Like, the last I lipped on the left edge. The hole before I left it like an inch short,” she explained. “Went in the jaws on a few holes before, and it just stayed out. Then I missed a birdie putt on the front nine, and that was from like six feet. So I’m looking back, thinking, I could have done more.”
Golf’s magic number 59 crept into her mind, too, after she made three birdies in a row after making the turn.
“I was just trying to go as low as I could,” Hull said. “To be fair, my boyfriend said to me, ‘What will make me happy is seeing you on the top of the leaderboard and just smash it.’ That’s what I had in my head, and I just wanted to do that.”
She looked confident on the course Thursday and set the tone early.
Hull may have felt she left some strokes out there, but regardless, she sits atop the leaderboard with a one-shot lead over Nanna Koerstz Madsen, who signed for an 8-under 64.
With 54 holes left, there is plenty of golf to play, but Hull is off to a hot start. She looks to end a drought that spans back to 2022.
More Golf: TGL 2025: Payout of $21M Purse as Atlanta Drive Claims Lion’s Share