An Olympic golf course built for wind, and for scoring

Justin Rose is revelling in becoming an Olympian and began targeting this week’s Rio tournament in 2009, when the sport’s return to the Games was first announced. According to the International Golf Federation, da Silva is included in the first group because he represents Brazil, the host nation, while DeLaet is in the first group since Canada is the defending champ after George Lyon claimed gold during the 1904 Games before golf was eliminated. “I didn’t want to miss out on it”. I’ve had some of the most fun that I’ve ever had on a golf course in a Ryder Cup, with the atmosphere and the camaraderie and the team format, so I’m looking forward to this year’s Ryder Cup quite a lot. As is the case on the PGA and LPGA tours, there will be no team component at the Summer Games.

Par on the Olympic golf course is 71.

“When it looked like he was going to play in the Olympics, I asked him if he wouldn’t mine, and fortunately, he agreed”, Edmondson said. “It teaches you to work a bit, to get things by working for it”.

“With all the world’s issues right now, to see so many different countries in one place and just co-existing with a smile on their face is so great to see”, he added. Golf is, by design, a sport that demands a healthy dose of competitive amnesia.

“We are just as worthy of being here as anybody else”, he stated. For now, the greens are rolling about 10.5 on the Stimpmeter, and can’t get much faster because of the windblown site. Obviously we don’t know – as a golfer, you don’t know how many or if you’ll play another one.

“I would never have heard the last of it”, he smiled.

“It’s not going to be easy to win this thing”, Fowler said.

Unlike some of his compadres staying home from Rio, Rory McIlroy had no trouble admitting why he wasn’t going. He has since qualified for the British Open three time, and has four career victories, his best year coming in 2013 when he won the Zambia Open and Sun City Challenge.

“Capybara being the largest rodent they say, it’s a decent sized animal”, said Fowler. They often live in packs of a dozen or more.

“Hopefully they get the opportunity to do it again in 2020 in Tokyo and hopefully it’s an opportunity they take”. While some are meant to notify golfers and the gallery that Brazilian law protects wild plants and animals, some are there to warn them of risky animals such as alligators.

“No matter what happens this week, it’s the greatest week of my life”, two-time major champion Martin Kaymer said.

When golf returns to the Olympic Games for the first time in 112 years on Thursday, the majority of the world’s elite players won’t return with it. No, Matt, it’s just 72 holes of individual stroke play. It’s almost 300 times larger than North Dakota, but they have the same number of golf courses – about 125. I didn’t get into golf to get other people into the game.

“I think everyone enjoys the fact they’ve done such a god job with the course and it’s in a natural environment”, Baker-Finch continued, perhaps boasting the nonchalance that comes from being from a country riddled with hazardous animals.

“If I went to the rest of the world and said I was an Olympic Gold Medal victor, you’d probably find that only 10 percent wouldn’t know and it would be reverse; 90 percent would know what an Olympic Gold Medal victor is”.