As someone who has seen all these women play golf, inside the ropes, Inbee Park is one of the best putters in the world. Outside of that, that is huge, she doesn't do much all that impressively. She is one of the few binkers on the LPGA tour that will be competitive on any style of golf course.
However, if the LPGA tour wants to start seeing more marketable players winning and finishing in the top of tournaments, they need to change their theory on course set up.
They need to play the par 5's shorter, Under 500, so that the longer players , traditionally European and N. American, can easily reach the greens in 2 shots.
They need to lengthen the par 4's over 400, for the same reason as above, let length be an advantage. Playing 360 par 4's is just a wedge contest, as is 530 yard par 5's.
They also need to widen the fairways and shorten the rough so that length becomes a factor. The shorter hitters are going to be hit the fairways no matter how small you make them, so you must allow the longer hitters to hit them more readily and not have much penalty when they don't to allow the longer hitters to have an advantage.
Inbee is such a great putter, it may not matter for her, she may only win by 2 or 3, but you guys just watched one of the longest courses on tour this year and every year, not a regular tour event for sure, even with the tees up on most days.
They frequently play courses under 6500, if they start playing courses 6700+ the scores would go up and the players in the top 30 would change a bit.
Rich- I sure hope you were joking about 2006 Hoy Lake, Tiger beat Inbee's score by 18 over 4 days, Inbee finished 2nd last year in Ladies British at Hoy Lake, on a much shorter golf course . In fact 47 men beat Inbee's final score over the 4 days.
Men vs Women isn't close. The best woman golfer in the world isn't as good as the best high school boy.