Hull at the top of LET’s Merit

March 21,2014: England’s Charley Hull scaled to the top of the Ladies European Tour’s Order of Merit 2014, after clinching her first LET title on the Tour at Lalla Meryem Cup.

Hull, who turned 18 on Thursday, secured a play-off victory at the Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco on Sunday and earned a gold, diamond and emerald purse, worth 75,000 euros as a Trophy.

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The current LET No.1 world No.65 came second in the same tournament a year back before becoming the youngest Solheim Cup player and a member of the first European team to win in the United States at Colorado Golf Club in August.

In Sunday’s final round, she carded impressive career-low round and course record nine-under-par 62 to tie for the lead with the experienced Gwladys Nocera on 15-under-par after 72 holes and then hit her 4-iron to four feet setting up a birdie at the first extra hole, the par-3 18th.

[highlight] I try not to set too many targets, just try and do one shot at a time, and do my best and go from there and hopefully get a couple more wins in [/highlight]

“It was awesome. It was pretty windy out there so to shoot nine under was fantastic. It’s scary to think I left a few shots out there but I could have holed my putt on the last for birdie and it could have been 10-under and that was what I was going for, but I went into the play-off. I hit my 4-iron into the wind over the water to four-feet and holed it to win, and it was amazing,” Hull spoke in a LET report.

“I wasn’t that nervous teeing off, I was nervous holing the putt though. I wasn’t really nervous at all hitting the shot. I just hit that four-iron sweet and stiffed it to four feet and over that putt, I don’t know how I holed it, but it went straight in the middle.”

Although she is teeing up in the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the year’s first major, on April 3-6 at Mission Hills Country Club in California, the Woburn-based player is not looking too far ahead.

“I try not to set too many targets, just try and do one shot at a time, and do my best and go from there and hopefully get a couple more wins in,” she said.