Cameron Smith had a forgettable weekend at Kingston Heath, but his parting feedback gives Golf Australia plenty to contemplate as it weighs up the immediate future of the Australian open tournaments.
Golf Australia are not wedded to playing the men and women’s Australian Open together in the future after leading players expressed their concern about the format and its timing during this year’s event at Kingston Heath.
Sutherland said decisions about whether men’s, women’s and all abilities Open tournaments would continue to be played alongside each other and whether they would remain in Victoria were yet to be made. Discussions with the Victorian Government about the location are now expected to ramp up. “We’ve spent time with players this week and their representatives this week, and we will continue to do that. Some of them know more than others where we are at with all of that.
He said enough had been said about the way the courses were set up, however WPGA CEO Karen Lunn backed Sutherland’s previous comments that the instructions were, to her understanding, to “play how they are supposed to play hard and fast but we can’t control the weather”. It ended a frustrating week at Kingston Heath for Smith who criticised the preparation of the course ahead of the tournament. He said on Sunday he had asked whether officials wanted the courses more friendly to help the scoring in the women’s tournament but had not received an adequate response.
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