“I’m excited to see how the golf course is”, Jacobsen, 62, said last week before playing in the Champions Tour’s 3M Championship.
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Foltz prefaced his remarks by saying he was part of the broadcast team, so there was a line that had to be drawn in the sand – which is appropriate, because the Olympic golf course was built on a sand quarry near saltwater marshes and lagoons and 150-pound rats known as capybaras.
And Lawrie completely sympathises with those players and thinks they need to do what is best for them. Each country can enter just two competitors.
Johnson cited the Zika virus and his plans for more children. And this ideal could not ask for a better spokesperson than Adilson da Silva. “And they are going to live with that decision”.
Another US golfer, Patrick Reed, told insidethegames that different kinds of sand had been used in different bunkers, giving players “an extra thing to figure out” when they get into trouble. Having said that, I feel very passionately about golf in the Olympics. You keep hearing all of these bad things about what’s been going on down there with security, to crime, to pollution.
As part of his duties with the Golf Channel, Foltz, who will turn 54 during the Olympics, will be roaming fairways and the areas around the rough during the women’s tournament next week. Let’s talk about what’s negative instead of what’s right. “If I win Olympic gold, half of it goes to her”.
“So many smaller nations, in golfing terms that is, said to us if golf was an Olympic sport it would dramatically increase its exposure, government support and funding in their respective countries”.
BILES BROUHAHA: NBC gymnastics announcer Al Trautwig has come under fire on social media over comments he made about the adoptive parents of American gymnast Simone Biles. “I’d say either full decathlon or modern pentathlon”. There was a lot of traveling. It’s the first time that we are in it for a long time. Nobody really has a reference point, whether you’re Jason Day or Jordan Spieth.
Ryder Cup, no question. “We do know it’s in the Olympics in 2020”.
“Storylines and headlines tend to be attention-grabbers and I’d heard word from Gil Hanse (designer of the Olympic golf course) that he’d spent months and months here, never (had) an issue”. There’s lot of birdies out there, but lots of places to get into trouble, too. He said there’s 34 hours of programming through next Tuesday, and he’s on for 30 or 31.
Johnson was one of four first-time major winners during 2016, joining Danny Willett, Jimmy Walker and Henrik Stenson.
Starting tomorrow, the tournament comes less than three weeks after the year’s final Major.
“Seeing Mickelson and Stenson play the way they did was incredible”, he said. We’ll see what happens with the Olympics. The four Americans who will play in this week’s event didn’t seem entirely comfortable with the topic of golf’s AWOL athletes, although they nonetheless had a message for those passed on the opportunity. It belongs, because it’s a grand game, played by athletes who don’t dope or cheat. These rules are jointly administered by the R&A (The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews) and the USGA (United States Golf Association).
“I played Hazeltine on (Aug. 1)”, Jacobsen said.
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“But saying that, you’re going to come out of this week with a memory that will last a lifetime”.
