Ko is one of 15 women this week competing in the Olympics for the third time. Despite all her achievements, she now feels the Olympics is in a different place for her.
In a study of the human tendency of focusing on what might have been as opposed to actually what is, the athletes who finished with a bronze medal looked markedly happier than those who won silver.
What happens when you get exactly what you’ve asked for and then it turns out it isn’t what you really needed? This is the particularly knotty conundrum golf finds itself in at the halfway point of Olympic men’s tournament at Le Golf National.
Ryan Fox from New Zealand, Gavin Green from Malaysia, C.T. Pan from Chinese Taipei and Fabrizio Zanotti from Paraguay are all making their third straight appearance in the Olympics, the only male golfers to appear in all three Games since golf was reinstated in 2016.
Unlike previous Olympic golf courses, Le Golf National is very much a known quantity, especially for those in the 60-man field who’ve played the DP World Tour.
A moving heart-to-heart from deputy chef de mission, Kyle Vander-Kuyp, has infused Australian golf stars Jason Day and Min Woo Lee with Olympic spirit ahead of their Games debut at Le Golf National starting tomorrow.
“The format is flawed.” “Men and women should compete together.”“Professionals who play for millions of dollars every week have no place at the Olympic Games.“ For three-and-a-half days everything that is wrong with golf at the Olympics was bandied about yet late on Sunday – to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum’s character in “Jurassic Park” – golf once again Read more…
The eyes of the sporting world are squarely focused on Tokyo right now and golf fans have waited patiently as other Olympic sports have taken the spotlight. That wait is now over.
Before golf’s official return to the Olympics this summer after a 112-year break, the question of how long it would remain a part of the Summer Games had already been raised.