Star golfer has a new appreciation for SI swimsuit models after recent shoot, Herbert auction & Herbie's dog

Six weeks ago, I interviewed Hull and asked her about Sydney Sweeney critics who blasted the actress over her Novig commercial.Hull defended Sweeney and praised her "sex appeal."Since then, it was announced that Hull, the world's 8th ranked female golfer, did a swimsuit shoot for Sports Illustrated.

And she has nothing but great things to say about women who model bikinis.SPORTS ILLUSTRATED ADDS CHARLEY HULL TO ITS SWIMSUIT ROSTER, NASCAR'S NOSEDIVE & DO WE HAVE ANTHEM FATIGUE?Charley Hull of England plays her shot from the 12th tee during the second round of the Aramco Championship 2026 at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 3, 2026.(Getty Images)"It's always been like a childhood dream since I was younger because one of my main idols growing up was Anna Kournikova.

She's a tennis player, and she was always in Sports Illustrated.I was like, oh, my God, please.

Yeah, definitely," Hull told golf media members this week."Yeah, just got out there in the morning.Flew to Ibiza, only like an hour and 50 flight from the UK.

Literally landed, went straight into hair and makeup, and just shot until like 8 p.m.at night.

Hats off to models, because it seems like a very easy job, but I didn't realize how hard it was.LPGA STAR CHARLEY HULL DITCHES THE LINKS FOR A BIKINI GIRLS TRIP, DOLPHINS-BENGALS FAN FIGHT & 'BAMA NO-CALL!"Yeah, it was pretty cool.And then the next day we did like a content day on the boat, and, yeah, it was just super fun.

It was good.And then I flew home that evening and I ate loads of cookies at the airport."Credit to Hull.

She stood up for Sweeney and then went out and did her own content shoot to shut up the wokes like Australian surfer Felicity Palmateer who claimed that Sweeney had damaged female athletes."Just absolute utter disbelief, incredibly disappointing, like, how far you can put women’s sports backwards in the space of a 42-second commercial," Palmateer told CNN in September.

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