Charley Hull is back in action this week, two weeks after being stretchered off the course after collapsing at the Evian Championship.

Hull collapsed twice during her opening round at the Evian Championship, and speaking ahead of this week’s Women’s Scottish Open, Hull opened up on the experience, revealing that she is still not 100 percent following the “bad virus”.

“I was feeling really rough on the Monday and I was being sick all day because I flew home after Ireland,” Hull explained. “Then Tuesday I woke up and I still wasn’t feeling very well. I had a practice round and I was just so tired. All my bones were aching in my body, and I had a really high temperature.”

By Wednesday, Hull was still unwell but insisted on completing the Pro-Am, “I soldiered through the Pro-Am, but I felt really rough, and all my bones were aching still,” she said.

Hull then described how the Thursday of her opening round unfolded. “I woke up in the morning and I felt really dizzy, cold sweats, had no energy,” she said. Despite this, Hull was 1 under through 12 holes.

“On the third hole of the course, which was my 12th, I felt really dizzy and I was in the bunker hitting a fairway shot and had to sit down for a minute because my eyesight went and my hearing went,” she recalled. “I don’t know if anyone has ever fainted before, but your eyesight goes, then your hearing, and then it goes all muffled.”

Then things got even worse, “Before I hit my tee shot, my eyesight went again, my hearing went, and then my knees gave way and I collapsed,” she said. “My caddie said my eyes rolled to the back of my head and I was out for over a minute. The security guard and the medic caught me just before I was about to hit my head on a concrete slab.”

Hull revealed how she was then put on an IV drip and stretcher after her blood pressure was recorded at 80/50 and her blood sugar at a low 0.4. “Every time I stood up, I fainted,” she said.

Interestingly, Hull even asked if she could finish her round later that evening, but tournament officials told her it was not possible. “I was gutted,” she said. “I just had no energy since then, really.”

Though still not at full strength, Hull is competing in Scotland this week. “I still don’t feel 100 percent now, like 80 percent,” she said. “I’ll take my time out there this week. Probably won’t see me strolling 30 yards ahead of everyone like I usually do. Probably be 30 yards behind everyone, but I’ll get it done.”

On waking up from the collapse, Hull said:

“It was weird, but it was actually quite scary. When I woke up from fainting I felt like I had come out of a really nice deep sleep. Like, I felt really nice. I was like, ‘oh, this feels good.’

“I’m, like, ‘that’s not my bedroom.’ I see birds above me and about 15 people around me and I was like, ‘where the f*** am I?’”

Despite not being at 100 percent, Hull fired a round of 1 under par on Thursday at the Women’s Scottish Open to sit just four off the lead.

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