Matt Kuchar, Rickie Fowler and Patrick Reed all look as though they’ll be better suited to the course and the last name represents the best value.
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Although the men’s tournament is being played this week at the Olympic Golf Course, Lovelady, 29, was on site to practice and play, one of the neat aspects to the event that saw a smattering of the women at the venue Monday.
A burrowing owl stands on the grass above it’s nest, made in a bunker on the Rio Olympic golf course.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – The first Olympics in South America. “The Olympic inclusion is the biggest “grow the game” opportunity for golf”.
To be at home in Brazil for the first golf in the Olympics in 1904 was special.
Ledecky goes first, in the 200 meter freestyle, at 10:19 p.m. Phelps has his sights set on the 200 meter butterfly at 10:28 p.m. When you got teammates you pull for them.
Now it’s their turn.
“On behalf of the sport of golf we are absolutely delighted to be here in Rio and returning to the Olympic Games after a long absence of 112 years”, Dawson told a press conference on Monday.
Second up on the first tee after da Silva will be Graham Delaet of Canada, the nation that produced George Lyon, the reigning Olympic champion.
The run-up to the competition has been dominated by the withdrawal of the world’s top four golfers, Jason Day of Australia, Americans Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, and Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, with most citing concerns over the zika virus.
“I’m a huge fan of all racket games”, said Kuchar, who won a consolation title in 2009 in the USTA National Husband-Wife Doubles Championship with wife Sybi, who played tennis at Georgia Tech. It also offers a three-hole finish that could leave the outcome in doubt until the last hole.
A couple of days earlier, the Brazilians also cheered for every opponent from eventual judo gold medal victor Paula Pareto XXXXX, as well as every Portugal goal in its 2-1 win over Argentina in men’s soccer. A surprise victor from a developing golf nation like Li Haotong of China or Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand? Watson is the top-seeded player, but Henrik Stenson (SWE) is the betting favorite. A dominant performance like Stenson at Royal Troon?
This idea started to go wrong when the American professional basketball players were allowed to compete.
One unknown remains the size of the gallery.
Track and field’s biggest star is preparing to retire from the sport as it battles with the fall-out from the Russian drugs scandal and corruption allegations against the former leadership of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
“One of the most special times in my life”, he said.
IGF executive director Antony Scanlon said 58 per cent of the available tickets had been sold, with the final round of the men’s competition on Sunday a 12,000 sell-out.
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“If a top player wins it justifies the golf course, the whole structure, but on the other hand if we get a lesser-known player win that’s a wonderful story too”. And he had more than just the best players in mind when he created it. If we wanted it to be hard and impose our will on the field, we would have done something different. It not like some of the other sports where if you jump a certain distance or swim at a certain time, you can pretty much figure out who is going to win. “It’s a little trickier to find the golf and silver and bronze”. Some will view Olympic hardware in high regard, while others would probably rather just win money, but either way, it’s going to be a very intriguing four days of golf.
