Brazilian selected to hit golf’s first shot in 112 years

“In my generation, your family had to be part of the game”, the 29-year-old Rio de Janeiro native said. It’s either achieve or you don’t. “In the wider Team GB, it’s what everyone trains for”.

“They’re massive. I saw some pictures (before arriving in Rio) but I didn’t expect them to be that big”, Spain’s Sergio Garcia commented.

“I had to add some tournaments in South Africa and Asia, ” he said. It doesn’t matter. Not all winners need medals.

“I would say I’m on the short list”, he said. I guess you had to improvise. “I had to make sure I was traveling and playing and practicing”. “There were some reasons the guys felt they shouldn’t come here, but any time there’s a reason to put on the stars and stripes I’m going to do it”. Known for doing well in the hot and humid conditions on the Asian Tour I like him at this price in a reduced field. This time, too, the stage is set and people are looking forward to the grand event. That was a pretty special feeling.

Hanse wants a good victor, too. He also mentioned how he is “really excited to have the opportunity to represent Team GB”.

They went to Copenhagen in 2009, along with Suzann Pettersen of Norway and Michelle Wie of the United States, when golf made its final presentation with hopes of getting back into the Olympics.

Lewis, one of three Americans to qualify for the Olympic women’s competition that starts next week, got married to Houston women’s golf coach Gerrod Caldwell on August 6 in a private ceremony in Mystic, Connecticut.

LERNER: I can’t go anywhere without someone asking me, “Are you anxious about going to Rio?”

“I remember when I was little, watching the Olympics and wishing I had the chance to play for a gold medal”, Reed said during a news conference Tuesday with American teammates Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson. Three per cent, three-and-a-half per cent of an entire thing.

“Obviously this was something I was never able to dream about because golf was never in the Olympics while I was growing up”, he said earlier in the week.

“Whereas out here, I don’t know how many sports there are in the Olympics, 28, we’re a very small percentage”. “When people turn on the TV to watch sports the one event where they can see nearly all the top athletes is the Olympics”. It’s just an incredible experience to be around.

“What you might see is some changes in format”, he said. We had breakfast with Jess Ennis-Hill the other morning.

“It’s nice to mix with people at the top of their game”. If we wanted it to be hard and impose our will on the field, we would have done something different. I also feel he is very overpriced.

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.

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