So, without his family by his side this week, he and Fowler are left to live it up.
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Rio de Janeiro (dpa) – Brazil’s Adilson da Silva will take the first tee shot when golf returns to the Olympics after a 112-year absence in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday.
Fowler isn’t waiting for golf to start to make good on his word.
Ratings plunge for ceremony • The opening ceremony was seen by an estimated 26.5 million viewers in the United States, a sharp 35 percent drop from the audience who watched the pageantry from London four years ago.
Reed, who represented the United States in the 2014 Ryder Cup and 2015 Presidents Cup, said donning the Stars and Stripes for the Olympics was “just as special” as the Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup or any other global competition. He tweeted a photo of meeting Jamaican diver Yona Knight-Wisdom.
Although the course designed specifically for the Olympics is home to plenty of wildlife, there had been no bear sightings to date.
“It’s certainly not helpful but I think now we’re looking forward we’re concentrating on those players who are here”, Dawson said. They were the two Americans who would have qualified no matter who withdrew for whatever reason. A lot of people would argue it almost ended there, too, soon superseded in Brazil’s sporting hierarchy by another wildly popular Scottish import of the era called “futbol”.
It would become an event stooping to the level of the Tour de France and the fraud perpetrated by Lance Armstrong – and most of the rest of them in his era, by all accounts. I expect there will be a lot of yardage changes from day to day, so it will never play the same way twice. Bubba Watson and Danny Willett round out the four top 10 players in attendance. Just how big of a problem are the animals to the golf tournament? It has sent eight athletes to Rio, some of whom competed for Albania at the 2012 London Olympics. “And to be here now, it’s quite wonderful”. If he absolutely had to pick a basketball team it would be the Knicks, but he’d gladly trade them for just one championship for any of his other three teams.
Kuchar, Reed and Watson all arrived Monday after playing The Travelers Championship in CT, but they were making up for lost time by taking it all in. His agent is Danish.
“Growing up, of course everyone has watched Phelps”, Reed said.
“What happens during the Olympics is going to be the engine for what happens after the Olympics in the success of this golf course”, Hanse said. “But when it comes down to me, any time I can put on the red, white and blue”.
Fowler said he has seen a couple of mosquitoes but “nothing insane”. He feels secure in his travels around Rio. He’s been staying in the athlete’s village, where he’s hung out with the diving team while watching many other Olympic events on TV. They will be tackling a slightly shorter version of the men’s course that caused all kinds of problems Saturday when numerous riders lost chains or had other mechanical problems on the cobblestones.
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You have to give the guys going to the Olympics credit.
