Olympics take GOLF!!!!!

[FATC1TY]

The Associated Press: Golf, rugby make Olympic roster for 2016, 2020


Looks like Golf and Rugby are in for the Olympics in Rio....

Sounds like fun!!

Tiger would have a chance to post up a Gold medal to boot!!

[ManchesterGolfer]

What a load of bollox! In my view the Olympic's should only include sports where the Games are the pinacle of that particular Sport, like Track & Field Athletic's. Who cares who wins an Olympic gold in Golf? Golf has the Major's and the Ryder Cup it doesn't need the Olympic's. I personally think including Sports such as Golf, Tennis and Football (Soccer) water down the Olympic's not improve them. This is just my point of view, if you think differently then thats your call. Maybe if it was for Ametur golfers only as the Olympics are for Boxing then I could see sense in that but not when Pro's can play it.

[FATC1TY]

Good point on the Am's playing, instead of Pro's.. We've already seen the Pro's compete, this would just be another exhibition really. I think it would be good to have guys from every country to compete, hold qualifier tourneys.. Anyone can enter, as long as you don't have a tour card.

I personally don't care, but I think it's good for golf on a large "world" scale.

[MGP]

The Olympics have turned into a mass of commercialized, big money political dick waving (especially for the major sports) so I could really care less.

About all I watch of the Olympics anymore are the smaller, more obscure sports. I don't think I even watched any of the last two summer games... Oh wait, I watched swimming with my niece and nephew since they are competitive swimmers. I still like the Winter games, don't get much coverage of sports like Curling here in the states... :laugh:

[eclark53520]

The Olympics have turned into a mass of commercialized, big money political dick waving (especially for the major sports) so I could really care less.

About all I watch of the Olympics anymore are the smaller, more obscure sports. I don't think I even watched any of the last two summer games... Oh wait, I watched swimming with my niece and nephew since they are competitive swimmers. I still like the Winter games, don't get much coverage of sports like Curling here in the states... :laugh:

+1 curling is awesome!

I'm not sure how i feel about golf being an Olympic sport. I know one thing, i'm glad Chicago didn't get the bid. What a cluster**** that would have been...

I do agree no pro's should be able to compete in the Olympics... amateurs only

[Dannykos]

a big fat load of balls…

the olympics are supposed to be the thing you aspire to as a sportsman, working through the ranks to eventually one day have the honour of representing your country. They should have made it under 21s, amateur only or something.

[FATC1TY]

I feel the same way about the baseball, and basketball and all that crap in the Olympics..

Honestly though.. I never really even WATCH the Olympics.

[Augster]

I read that they are going to do 72 holes of stroke play over 4 days.

When was the last time I saw that format? Yawn.

Why not a team competition like a 5-man scramble? Or 4-man, or 3-man teams? Do that over 72 holes and have the team get the medals. I imagine too much luck comes into it such as holing out eagles on chip-ins etc.

For individual, why not 6 rounds like Q-school? It'll be a little more of a grind than they are used to and if you have one bad round, you have plenty of other rounds to soften the blow.

The major problem I see with golf in the olympics is that there isn't any history. I get it that they are trying to create history and don't want to leave out one of the best, if not THE best, players in history in Tiger.

But how many Olympic medals has Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, Watson, Jones, Snead, Sarazen, Hogan, Hagen, and the Morris's (old and young)won? None.

But we still keep track of the majors they have won.

If Golf continues in the Olympics, maybe in 100 years it might matter a bit. Maybe not. The best players that have ever played the game don't have any Olympic medals. They don't have Fedex Cups either.

I plan on watching it, regardless of the format, but if they only opened golf in the Olympics up to amatuers, it'd be about as well received as the Walker Cup. I have never seen a Walker Cup match, nor do I know when it is played.

[SilverUberXeno]

Lousy idea, IMO. Does golf feel like it needs an olympic presence to validate it? Why not olympic chess, or kite flying?

[JEFF4i]

Olympic air hockey, I'd be a gold medalist!

[Manavs]

im looking forward to countries dumping government dollars into the industry - more public courses, more access, more demand, more golfers, more equipment, more lessons, more jobs, more, more, more more

here's hoping to a BIG industry boom

[mddubya]

im looking forward to countries dumping government dollars into the industry - more public courses, more access, more demand, more golfers, more equipment, more lessons, more jobs, more, more, more more

here's hoping to a BIG industry boom

Ding ding ding, we have a winner !!!!!!


This was the whole purpose for trying to get golf into the Olympics.


Personally, I'm glad Golf is in the Olympics now. My only hope is that once the Pros get tired of playing they go back to the true Olmpian rules and its the best Amateurs from each country.

[FATC1TY]

im looking forward to countries dumping government dollars into the industry - more public courses, more access, more demand, more golfers, more equipment, more lessons, more jobs, more, more, more more

here's hoping to a BIG industry boom

Thats kinda how I looked at it, mostly. I could careless about who is playing, or who wins... Obviously the USA, Ireland, England, South Africa, Australia have some, if not the best players in the world...

But I think it these countries would dump money into the game, more players will start playing, courses being built in different places that didn't have courses..

It'll be good for the whole game I think, regardless of how boring we all think the match would be.

[twogreen]

Hopefully, this will spark some new interest in the game and slow down the trend of converting golf courses into shopping centers, subdivisions, and industrial parks.

[Manavs]

Thats kinda how I looked at it, mostly. I could careless about who is playing, or who wins... Obviously the USA, Ireland, England, South Africa, Australia have some, if not the best players in the world...

But I think it these countries would dump money into the game, more players will start playing, courses being built in different places that didn't have courses..

It'll be good for the whole game I think, regardless of how boring we all think the match would be.

Thanks MDdubya - what do i win? lol


and think of the countries like India whose population can boom because of this - both in play and manufacturing!