What happens when you get exactly what you’ve asked for and then it turns out it isn’t what you really needed? This is the particularly knotty conundrum golf finds itself in at the halfway point of Olympic men’s tournament at Le Golf National.
Ryan Fox from New Zealand, Gavin Green from Malaysia, C.T. Pan from Chinese Taipei and Fabrizio Zanotti from Paraguay are all making their third straight appearance in the Olympics, the only male golfers to appear in all three Games since golf was reinstated in 2016.
The International Golf Federation is particularly excited about the idea of adding a third event to the golf schedule at the next Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028.
A month after the Tokyo Olympics were rescheduled for 2021, the International Golf Federation announced Wednesday it has altered its qualifying dates for the Summer Games.