Golf Goes for Gold!
Last week the International Olympic Committee announced that after being absent from the games for more than a century, golf would return to the Olympics in 2016 and 2020. The last time golf was an Olympic sport was in 1904 at the St. Louis, Mo., games. At that time, there were only two teams competing: the United States and Canada.
PGA.com said that the IGF, the International Golf Federation, has recommended an “Olympic field of 60 players for each of the men’s and women’s competition, using the Official World Golf Rankings as a method of determining eligibility. The top 15 world-ranked players would be eligible for the Olympics, regardless of the number of players from a given country.”
Did anyone doubt golf would be back? Who do you think will win gold? We only have to wait six years to find out.