The Women and the Men Join Forces in Australia

The most effective event of its type tees off this week. Both men and women compete within the ISPS Handa Vic Open, and that they play for same prize cash.

This is a brand new occasion at the LPGA's agenda and will provide them a two-week swing thru Australia. (It's accompanied with the aid of the ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open.) It's co-sponsored via the LPGA, the ALPG, the European Tour and the Australasian Tour. (That's women's excursions and two men's tours.)

So nowadays I'm usually providing you with hyperlinks to articles that give you the information about the occasion due to the fact there's a lot new about it, even though the Vic Open at first began in 1957.

• I'll start with Tony Jesselli's preview over at his blog. I do need to update his list of major female players since Brooke Henderson has had to bow out because of illness.
• The European Tour has done a "Five Things to Know" article about the event which gives you some of the men's news about the tournament.
• The ET also posted this article that explains how the format works.
• Randall Mell's golfchannel.com article "Women Saved the Vic Open; Now They're Getting Their Equal Reward" is the most thorough of the articles, giving you a history of the event and how female participation has helped keep the event alive over the years.

Something to note about this event is that it isn't an invitational event where players are guaranteed a paycheck. This is a regular full field tournament with a cut, and this is the first year that the LPGA and the ET have been involved.

This new twist to the occasion has the ability to create but another new format for golfing tournaments, with male and girl golfers teeing off in change companies in order that each genders are gambling the path at the same time.

Tony's post lists the TV times, as GC intends to give this event around 18 hours of coverage. It begins on Wednesday (Feb. 6) for three hours starting at 11pm ET.