Charley Hull has been making headlines since she entered the game, but lately, she has been opening up about her life, which has taken over the headlines. Taking a page from Rory McIlroy’s playbook, Hull has set her sights on a new chapter beyond the fairways. After learning from past struggles in relationships, she’s now found herself in a healthy, happy partnership with a boyfriend she prefers to keep away from the public eye.

Recently, Charley Hull gave fans a very candid view of what her retirement plans might look like. On a recent episode of the Inside the LPGA podcast, she said,” My dreams are to settle down and have children and to live a life just of contentedness and cooking dinner every night and just seeing them run around the garden.” This might honestly not come as a surprise for many, as she has been in a strong relationship for quite some time now.

Charley Hull has been opening up about her feelings on having children many times in the past. In an interview with Hope Barnett, she gave us a little insight into how she has had a beautiful time with her sister’s baby. “My sister just had a baby, so I’ve been up there with the baby,” and how “getting my practice in for the future,”

This might not be something that might happen very soon, though, but it is a quiet possibility in the near future. Charley Hull has been in a strong, healthy relationship since 2024 with her boyfriend, whom she keeps out of the spotlight. While she finds it hard to balance her career and her relationships, she opened up about how she feels like it’s the best thing to do. “I think it’s a good thing to do. It can be hard with my job and everything.”, as she credits Rory McIlroy on how he kept his life private after his divorce.

While she did reveal her retirement plans, she has also given fans an insight into what might happen immediately in her life. Now she has set her sights on a major, she revealed, amidst her retirement plans on how she still wants to continue golf and win a major on the way. Continuing on in the same interview with Inside the LPGA podcast, she said, “That’s like a dream to me. And playing golf. Yeah. I love that. But that’s for years to come. Because I want to win. I want to win a major. Yeah, I have a feeling that’s coming soon.” 

Charley Hull on injuries and her hopes for the future 

Coming hot off a strong victory at the Kroger Queen City Championship, she revealed in a press conference how she was still recovering from many injuries. During the tournament itself, she was fighting through the pain with her ankle injury. Even though she was in pain, she expressed her love for the game. “I love it, I just love being on the golf course. I just enjoy playing golf… It’s not a chore to me, it’s not work,” she added.

Now, she is struggling with injuries again as she is recovering from a spine injury. In the same episode, she revealed more about her back injury: “I’ve actually got a back injury from lifting up a box two weeks before Evian. So it’s a week before Ireland, I tore something, and now I’ve got these cysts growing on the side of my spine. At the minute, I don’t need surgery. But we just got to prevent them. It’s from where I’ve torn the muscles. I’ve got a really good spine when they done the MRI. All my discs are perfect. It’s just these little cysts where I’ve torn my back.”

While she is still away from training, she is still trying her best to improve her swing with her coach, Matt Belsham. Even though she has been plagued with injuries throughout the season, she hasn’t gone out of form at all. This can be seen through her incredible performance and a huge improvement in her swing game, thanks to her training. She was 9th in the strokes gained department during 2024 with a 1.43, but this has jumped to 2.06 season. Combine this with her win at Kroger Queen City, and she still shows us how she is a threat, even with her injuries.

Her achievements in the majors are nothing shorts as well, she has come close to winning the major many times, 2016 ANA Inspiration, the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open, and both the 2023 and 2025 AIG Women’s Open were all the times she finished second, but 2026, one where she might not be plagued with injuries, might be the year she finally gets to call herself a major winner. 

If we know Charley Hull for something, then it’s her absolute resilience to fight through injuries and keep improving, and now her hopes for winning the next major looks absolutely strong, and when this win does come it won’t just be another trophy, it will mark the reward for years of hard work, growth, and finding balance between golf and her life off the course.