A throwaway comment by Rory McIlroy after he missed out on a bronze medal was worth its weight in gold as golf’s much talked-about acceptance in the Olympic Games was reinforced following two glorious weeks at Tokyo 2020.
In addition to giving Oakmont seven future championships, the USGA designated the course as the second US Open “anchor” site, along with Pinehurst Resort.
For the second week in a row, Australia came up short at Kasumigaseki Country Club as Hannah Green’s three-under final round was not enough to secure a medal.
Minjee Lee’s 2016 Olympic teammate Su Oh believes the manner of her recent Major breakthrough at the Evian Championship will serve as the ideal Olympic preparation ahead of the start of the women’s golf competition tomorrow.
Here’s to hoping these wholehearted endorsements of Olympic Golf – and an eventual return to normalcy – result in a more star-studded field in Paris 2024.
“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…
Sungjae Im and Si Woo Kim both didn’t medal at the Olympics and thus failed to exempt themselves from South Korea’s mandatory military service requirement.
Australian Golf Digest
