Americans aim for sweep Olympics golf, braced for wildlife, wind

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday urged athletes to come forward and report any harassment case in the wake of sexual assault allegations in the athletes village at the Rio Olympic Games. “I think they will regret it”, Kuchar said.

“It’s just kind of one of those things, being an outdoor sport, you have three things you have to do, you have to wear sunscreen, you have to wear bug spray and you have to hydrate”.

After so much effort and investment was made into restoring golf as an Olympic sport for the first time in more than a century, it is perhaps slightly disappointing to see that six of the world’s top ten golfers have chose to turn down the invitation, with reasons as varied as concerns over the Zika virus to “tiredness” being cited.

This is a big deal for golf, which will benefit from worldwide exposure. But you can bet on this: Whoever wins the gold medal Sunday, major champion or not, will rank it among the best experiences of his life.

At this point, it’s irrelevant.

Fowler wishes they were here as well, but respects their decisions not to be.

And then there have been his less public attempts to dig the needle a little deeper into those who opted out of an Olympic start. It’s time to talk about the ones who are.

“It’s all about what the wind does”, Fowler said on Tuesday at a news conference.

“To call ourselves Olympians, I mean, it’s hard to explain”, Reed said. “Having that opportunity just heightens everything”.

“I thought, they are actually here, they are actually playing our golf course”. “When people turn on the TV to watch sports the one event where they can see nearly all the top athletes is the Olympics”. Watson is geeked to catch some team handball. He was headed to swimming on Tuesday night.

“I’m a huge fan of all racket games”, said Kuchar, who won a consolation title in 2009 in the USTA National Husband-Wife Doubles Championship with wife Sybi, who played tennis at Georgia Tech.

To see who I’m getting in my lineups for the week, you can check out my personal DraftKings Fantasy Golf Picks lineups on the final slide of this post.

That’s a long drive from the message Rory McIlroy offered last month when he announced he would be skipping the Olympics. They make it look so easy, too.

“I feel like I’m doing a pretty good job of it”, he said with a grin. “I’d say either full decathlon or modern pentathlon”. I expect there will be a lot of yardage changes from day to day, so it will never play the same way twice. “I’m trying to take it all in, do everything and see the sights”.

“As of today a kid growing up in western Pennsylvania or eastern Portugal can dream of being an Olympic golfer…” It belongs, because it’s a grand game, played by athletes who don’t dope or cheat. It belongs, because it is older than all but a few sports in the Olympic program.