This week in Australia comes a reset. After three years of mixed-gender experiments, the Australian Open is a field only for men. Men and women playing together is great, but with it come some course-oriented issues (discussed ahead). These mixed events, like the Grant Thornton Invitational, which happens yearly, might not just be the way to go about things. So believes Lucas Herbert .

“I think the women deserve their own week,” Herbert tells Flushing It Golf . “I just don’t think it’s fair to test men’s and women’s games on the same course in the same week… I think it’s the way forward.”

The problem begins when championships modify courses to accommodate both men and women golfers. Royal Melbourne, like Kingston Heath and Victoria, is an architecturally expressive course. It can onl

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