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Post by portsea on Dec 21, 2018 6:13:22 GMT
Just asking.
How would a tournament be with one purse and competed for by both men and women? Probably 50 players each.
Obviously the course would have to be set up carefully so not to give one half of the field an advantage over the other.
Assume the money would be enough to get almost all of the top 50 women in the world - and a decent number of the best men.
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Post by don on Dec 21, 2018 9:26:31 GMT
I think it would be all anybody was talking about that week. All you see are Lexi highlights when she is playing with Tony Finau in the QBE Shootout.
With the Korean TV market at some point you’d think more sponsors would want to figure out a way to get those women stars at their event.
It’s not just Korea either, Brooke, Nasa, Georgia, Aryia, Minjee, Shanshan etc. Without seeing the numbers the worldwide LPGA audience is probably starting to look pretty attractive to the right companies.
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Post by 18majors on Dec 21, 2018 13:25:03 GMT
Ideally, it would be Top 50 women and Top 50 men by world ranking.
It wouldn't be good to have Top 50 women and ran of the mill 50 men.
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Post by philknj on Dec 21, 2018 14:35:47 GMT
Obviously the course would have to be set up carefully so not to give one half of the field an advantage over the other.
They do it on a tiny scale in Japan with the annual Hitachi 3Tour charity team event...three sets of tees for the men, women, and geezers.
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Post by don on Dec 21, 2018 20:30:55 GMT
I wonder what the key to a fair setup is. Obviously you'd want to be approaching with the same irons but I wonder if you could go further and set the approaches up so they are at the same spin rate.
So fairness might be wedge vs 9 iron. I'm not a big trackman guy so I couldn't tell you.
If there was shot link data on the LPGA you'd just set the approx. to hole distances the same as the men, I suppose.
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