I was watching pro golf coverage on the news and it seems so odd that men and women compete separately - same goes with pro bowling. Just seems weird to me that a game of skill is gendered when you can’t even raise an argument that someone might have an advantage because of what’s between their legs.
I hear what you’re saying. While golf does have a significant amount of raw muscularity into it (just take a look on average drive distances: for example where men typically average out about 60 yards further) and might make some sense separated out, skill sports where dexterity and control play the only role seem to me to be fair cross genders.
Precision shooting is a good example where the divide doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Shooting sports in the Olympics had one all-gender competition until a woman won. Mysteriously, she was prevented from defending her title because it became a “men’s” competition the next time round. (I want to say they didn’t even have a women’s event in the next Olympics, but I could be misremembering.)
Well that’s deeply disappointing yet sadly not all that surprising.
Interesting, I was unaware of the drive difference between men and women. I still stand by my overall stance in that if its pure skill I don’t see much need to separate, as @hoyland pointed out shooting would would be a good example.