It’s the tournament that they never imagined contesting let alone winning but the prospect of Olympic gold is now hitting home for Australian pair Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman.
As golf’s various stakeholders – the PGA Tour, European Tour and LPGA Tour, Augusta National, the PGA of America, the USGA and the R&A – cancel and postpone their own events and explore potential alternative dates, all are working with the assumption that the Olympics would go on as scheduled.
Dick Pound originally said organisers would wait until May before making a final call, but IOC president Thomas Bach and other organisers said preparations would continue as planned.