Given the USPGA seem have neither the foresight nor the will to occasionally bring their championship to the Southern Hemisphere then perhaps The Open could come south of the equator?
They all take about 'growing the game' but surely this would be truly doing something to nurture it?
Why not work on making the Australian Open more of what it should be? Why hope for outside agencies to bring their party to your house?
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Because to bring a field to Australia remotely close to the one a major championship would bring would cost perhaps 50-100 million dollars in appearance fees. In no world can Australia afford anything remotely close to that.
The majors are great in part because they don't have the encumbrance of paying fees - and agent's commissions.
And these guys make so much money now, why bother to come to Australia for a million dollars?
Rory passed on Hilton Head and it cost him $3 million.
Years ago - the 60s and 70s - when it was a really good field Nickaus, Palmer and Player regularly played as a part of a deal IMG negotiated with Dunlop/ Slazenger to play their clubs in Australia. Palmer's deal with Dunlop - and the royalties he earned on clubs sold with his name on them - was one of his biggest at the time. (Back when the Australian dollar was worth more than the US dollar)
Can you imagine a world where Rory, Rahm and Hovland ditched Callaway and Taylor Made for a couple of weeks to play another brand of clubs - and ball? Bruce Devlin, a Spalding player in the US, played Slazenger - their biggest competitor - in Australia.