In 2028, the Olympic Games will host the latest in a long line of mixed events to feature on the DP World Tour.
The Mixed-Team Event at the Los Angeles Games will come a decade after the European Tour group first had mixed golf on its schedules at the 2018 GolfSixes.
That saw Charley Hull and Georgia Hall form an all-female England team while fellow Solheim Cup stars Mel Reid and Carlotta Ciganda played together in a European team, with both sides reaching the quarter-finals.
Next came the ISPS HANDA Vic Open in Australia which formed part of the DP World Tour schedule in 2019 and 2020 and brought together the men’s and women’s professional game, with two tournaments played concurrently on the same golf course and for equal prize money.
In that same season, the HotelPlanner Tour hosted the inaugural ISPS HANDA World Invitational presented by AVIV Clinics, which in 2021 would become the first mixed event of its kind to be tri-sanctioned by the DP World Tour, LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour.
And the innovation kept on coming in 2019, with the Jordan Mixed Open seeing 40 players from each of the HotelPlanner Tour, LET and Legends Tour compete against each other on the same course at the Jordan Mixed Open.
2021 then saw the long established Scandinavian Masters become the Scandinavian Mixed, a first-of-its-kind event as 78 men and 78 women competed on the same course for one prize fund and one trophy.
Caroline Hedwall became the first female in history to hold the solo lead on the DP World Tour, before Alice Hewson claimed top female honours with a third-place finish in the same edition.
And the following year Linn Grant became the first female winner on the DP World Tour in its 50th anniversary year with a thumping nine-shot victory, going on to lift the trophy again in 2024.
In the same year as the Scandinavian Mixed was launched, Daphne van Houten became the first female player to play on the EDGA European Tour - a forerunner to the G4D Tour - at the EDGA Cazoo Open, with the G4D Tour having regularly hosted mixed events since.
The Australian Open has since joined the DP World Tour schedule in 2022, holding both its men's and women's events over the same courses, as the DP World Tour's history of inclusion and innovation in mixed golf continues.
