RIO DE JANEIRO – Rickie Fowler astutely pointed out that the United States is the only country in the Olympic golf tournament that can sweep the podium and capture all three medals.
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On a day of firsts for Olympic golf, Marcus Fraser of Australia had the one that mattered – the first-round lead.
Her coach told the Belgian VRT network he believes Van Acker contracted a severe intestinal infection while training in Rio de Janeiro last month.
“Words can’t really put it into perspective”, Fowler said. “It’s one or two shots that are going in the wrong spots”.
“It’s been absolutely awesome”, Watson said. We talked about trying to make some of the guys jealous. Just they in a way appreciate that we wanted to make the trip down and wanted to represent our country.
“I think the event is going to go off great”, world number 20 Kuchar said. And so the question was posed to the US team Thursday: Will your mentality be different, since walking away with a bronze medal means a lot more than your typical third-place finish? Here it was a little different.
But after the first round at the Olympic Golf Course, that will now be an extremely hard task – and could today’s results could affect a few Ryder Cup hopes as well. ” … The game just became more challenging when the winds picked up”.
Fowler didn’t enjoy his.
There’s still no question the International Golf Association missed the boat by making it a standard, 72-hole stroke-play event, like every other event week-in, week-out on the PGA Tour. “I know there were concerns”.
“Capybara being the largest rodent they say, it’s a decent sized animal”, said Fowler. “I haven’t had a problem and I definitely feel safe here”. Unfortunately, not the start I was looking for. “I had a warm welcome from other athletes and they were thanking me for being here”.
Reed couldn’t get the speed of the greens down but said he’ll get up to speed.
Fowler’s US team-mate Patrick Reed is unconcerned about mosquitoes, suggesting his approach in Rio will be no different to anywhere else he plays. I didn’t putt very well. But Watson would not let that reasonable summarization – how most Olympians likely feel – rest.
“I am actually serious”, Watson said. There isn’t, which leaves plenty of time for both the Americans and Olympic golf to get things going.
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Feherty, who’ll be positioned in an on-course tower for the exhaustive Rio golf coverage on NBC’s Golf Channel, suggests the correct attitude for Olympic golf is to just go with the flow. “There’s a lot of birdies out here”.
