Minjee Lee’s 2016 Olympic teammate Su Oh believes the manner of her recent Major breakthrough at the Evian Championship will serve as the ideal Olympic preparation ahead of the start of the women’s golf competition tomorrow.
Here’s to hoping these wholehearted endorsements of Olympic Golf – and an eventual return to normalcy – result in a more star-studded field in Paris 2024.
Sungjae Im and Si Woo Kim both didn’t medal at the Olympics and thus failed to exempt themselves from South Korea’s mandatory military service requirement.
Of course, Xander Schauffele wanted to win an Olympic gold medal for himself. But he really, really wanted to win one for his dad, Stefan, whose own Olympic decathlon aspirations died when his car was struck by a drunk driver.
When the parents of an Olympic athlete look at a child competing on the world’s biggest stage, they’re usually overtaken with pride. When Cameron Smith’s mum looks at him this week, though, she’ll be feeling something else as well.
They’re clearly trying to treat this as just another tournament, so as to avoid putting too much pressure on themselves and having that impact their play. But one needs only to look at their recent schedule to understand just how significant this tournament is.
The eyes of the sporting world are squarely focused on Tokyo right now and golf fans have waited patiently as other Olympic sports have taken the spotlight. That wait is now over.
Tommy Fleetwood, the man whose flowing locks have earned him the nickname ‘Fairway Jesus’, has conceded that the mulleted Cam Smith would beat him to gold if the Olympics was awarding medals for hairstyles at the Tokyo Games.
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.
Australian Golf Digest
