{"id":8220,"date":"2026-02-14T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/hull-claims-fifth-european-title-with-victory-in-riyadh\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:05:02","slug":"hull-claims-fifth-european-title-with-victory-in-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/hull-claims-fifth-european-title-with-victory-in-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Hull claims fifth European title with victory in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByCraig NelsonBBC Sport journalist<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published27 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PIF Saudi Ladies International &#8211; final round leaderboard<\/p>\n<p>-19 C Hull (Eng); -18 C Alexander (SA), A Iwai (Jpn); -17 C Ciganda (Spa), HJ Choi (Kor)<\/p>\n<p>Selected others: -16 M Rhodes (Eng), I Yoon (Kor), N Hataoka (Jpn); -12 R Takeda (Jpn); -10 E Hamilton (Eng), L Walsh (Ire)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/sport\/golf\/ladies-european-tour\/leaderboard\">Full leaderboard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>England&#x27;s Charley Hull produced a stunning finish to win the PIF Saudi Ladies International by one shot and claim her fifth title on the Ladies European Tour (LET). <\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old world number five picked up six shots in the final eight holes &#8211; including an eagle on the 12th and birdie at the last &#8211; to card a seven-under par closing round of 65. <\/p>\n<p>Hull faced a nervous wait after setting the clubhouse lead, tied with Casandra Alexander on 19 under, but the South African dropped a shot when three-putting the 17th and missed a birdie putt at the last that would have forced a play-off. <\/p>\n<p>Alexander, who shot a 68, finished in a tie for second place alongside Japan&#x27;s Akie Iwai, while Spain&#x27;s Solheim Cup star Carlota Ciganda and South Korea&#x27;s overnight leader Hye-Jin Choi finished joint fourth on 17 under. <\/p>\n<p>England&#x27;s Mimi Rhodes, who led the tournament after a first-round 64, finished tied for sixth place at the Riyadh Golf Club on 16 under following a fine closing round of 67.  <\/p>\n<p>Hull earned a winner&#x27;s prize of $750,000 (\u00a3549,000), kicking off the 2026 season in style by winning on the same course where she claimed her last LET title in 2024. <\/p>\n<p>She was told of her win as she waited on the practice green, replying: &quot;Hooray, at least I can pay my house off now!<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;ve worked really hard this off season so it&#x27;s nice to get a result pretty much straight away. It&#x27;s one of the bigger events on the LET and it&#x27;s kind of a like a home event for me.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Hull started the day three shots off the lead and made the turn in two under for the day. <\/p>\n<p>She dropped a second shot of the round on the 10th, but picked up four in the next three holes, with her charge including a 60-foot eagle putt on the par-five 12th. <\/p>\n<p>Further birdies followed at the par-five 15th and 18th, putting the onus on her rivals to match her. <\/p>\n<p>Iwai, who had moved into a share of the lead with a golden touch on the greens, bogeyed the 17th with a damaging three-putt that left her two shots back.<\/p>\n<p>And, after Alexander also bogeyed the penultimate hole, Hull was finally able to celebrate, even after Iwai birdied the last for a 67.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, 24-year-old Rhodes kicked off her campaign to make September&#x27;s Solheim Cup team with a superb final round that included six birdies and just one dropped shot. <\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/golf\">Golf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hull claims fifth European title with victory in RiyadhImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Charley Hull has eight career titles, including three on the LPGA tourByCraig NelsonBBC Sport journalist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}