Charley Hull rarely checks social media after sharing her pranks, but she doesn’t need to see the backlash to know how she feels about it. Her scratch-card prank on longtime caddie Adam Woodward at the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham has drawn plenty of criticism online, but her reaction was every bit as unbothered as the joke itself.

“No. And people that have complained about it, I would say loosen up,” Hull said at Thursday’s AIG Women’s Open presser when faced with a question of whether she had any regrets.

She’d already made the same point moments earlier when asked if she’d do it all again.

“Yeah, a hundred percent. He thought it was funny after. He’s not uptight. Like it’s a joke. If people don’t like it, they can lump it, do you know what I mean?

“I mean, like I felt bad for Adsy, but at the end of the day I just got to have a good week, and at the end of the week I’ll buy him 100 scratch cards.”

Pressed on whether the online criticism had gotten to her, Hull doubled down rather than walking any of it back. First, the golfer mentioned that she deletes social media from her phone on tournament weeks.

“But yeah, I think people need to lighten up if they are taking that too seriously, because it was pretty funny,” she added.

Hull revealed the prank at a conference earlier this week

Hull picked up a fake £100,000 scratch card in Blackpool the night before and handed it to her caddie, Woodward, on their way to the players’ lounge. He scratched it, believed he had won, and reacted exactly how anyone would.

The caddie jumped around the lounge, smiling, giggling, and giving everybody a high five. He was so happy; he was ready to take one day’s leave to celebrate.

Much to the disappointment of everyone on the team, they eventually had to sit him down and tell him it was a fake card.

The golfer herself admitted she felt a pang of guilt after watching Woodward’s face fall once he learned the truth. But soon after, in a moment of disappointment, Woodward decided it was too funny to regret.

Hull and Woodward have shared a bag for over 10 years, and their partnership is heavily built on banter moments like these, so the prank may have been taken in good spirits. However, fans online have called it cruel.

While some said Woodward deserved better after everything he’s put into her bag over the years, others called it classic Charley. They pointed to more than a decade that the pair has spent together as proof that the joke is landing exactly how it is meant to.

Hull and Woodward have a history of pranking each other

The scratch card wasn’t an isolated stunt, either. Just a week earlier at the Scottish Open, Woodward pulled a foghorn on Hull mid-swing. It was a prank that backfired when she birdied her way through the round anyway.

Hull got her payback days later with a fish and chips ambush. On that occasion, the duo stood by the waterfront when Hull shoved a white container of fish and chips into her caddie’s face. She later topped it off with the scratch card at Royal Lytham.

Charley Hull and Woodward have been open about how much they value each other. Woodward has caddied for Hull since 2015, but they briefly split for a year before reuniting. She has never been shy about what he means to her game, even saying that he is her best friend.

“If he couldn’t caddie anymore, I think I’d just be like, right, I’m retiring because I feel like no one else could caddie for me,” Hull said back in April.

The caddie is down 2-1, and even his foghorn prank did not work after the initial shock factor.

The golfer admitted that she needs to watch her back with Woodward looking to get even.

“But now, I’ve got to have my back up, cause I don’t know what he’s got in store for me to pay me back.”

The prank stems from Charley Hull’s candid relationship with money, a subject she raised in the same press conference. She said she loves playing majors for money, as it means more share for her and her caddie.

Hull can say “loosen up” all she wants, but her golf this week will do the real talking. A missed cut hands the critics all the ammunition they need, but a good finish will see attention move from the scratch card to her game.

It will also result in a good payday for the man carrying her bag, with zero pranks this time.