Women’s Open: Charlie Hull and Lottie Wade hope for another home win at Royal Lytham and St Annes.

The week has clearly started on an easy note for the catering pro, but she is deadly serious about the challenge ahead.

If Hull is one of the best of the five main runners, she will continue the British success story here at Royal Lytham and St Annes in this event.

Scotland’s Catriona Matthews became champion in 2009 and nine years later England’s Georgian Hall won at the famous Lancashire links.

Hull and world number five Lottie Wade are among the nominees for this, the last of the five major tournaments of the year. Unlike Blackpool’s lottery tickets, Lytham’s hopes of maintaining the tradition of identifying UK champions are real.

“Terrible, very frustrating,” Hall says of her masterpiece to date. “I’m human at the end of the day so I feel like sometimes people can put a little bit of pressure on you.”

World number one Nellie Korda dropped out of charge at June’s US Open, missing out on another major draw in the tournament.

Although she came last in Riviera, the British star made the closing holes that could have been enough for the victory. They showed her what it takes to win a major.

“If you look at the putt on 17, I had to make a hole-in-one and then on 18,” she recalled. “And on that 18th hole I hit a beautiful, beautiful, putt to the green. It was a putt that went over 175 yards.

“It was a great shot and then I chipped and then I chipped the putt so I got the grit. Just that week, Nellie played well.”

A year ago, Hull shot a three-stage final round at Royal Porthcawl to finish in a share of second place, two shots behind Miu Yamshita.

The pain of that defeat deepened when Hull went to Lytham to see posters of past champions.

“It was great to think that one day I would be able to sleep at night if I won a major,” Hall said.

The world number seven won the Saudi Ladies International earlier in the year, but admitted the rest of her season was a mixed bag. Her runner-up finish at the US Open is the most noteworthy to date.

Hull has battled injury and admitted it will be a tough mental challenge this week despite home support.

“If you don’t play well, you feel like you let everyone down,” she said.

“But at the end of the day, it’s just life. If you take a bad shot, you’re not going to die. I’m just going to go out there and have fun.”