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Golf featured in the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 at Paris and 1904 at St. Louis.
Thereafter it was it was reinstated in 2016 Summer Olympics.
Qualification for the Olympics is based primarily upon the Official World Golf Ranking (men) and Women’s World Golf Rankings.
Total of 60 players compete for the medal.
Top 15 of each gender automatically qualify (with a limit of four per country), and then the highest ranked players from countries that had not yet already qualified (Max two players) are added.
Stroke play is used at the Games, with athletes playing four rounds of 18 holes (72 Holes) over four days.
USA is the leader in the medal tally of so far conducted tournaments with 12 medals followed by Great Britain with 3 medals.
TOKYO OLYMPICS
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Olympic Golf venue
Kasumigaseki Country Club in the verdant Musashino Hills.
Japan has nearly 2000 golf courses.
Kasumigaseki is the venue for Tokyo 2020 Men’s & Women’s golf competitions.
It is one of the oldest and most prestigious historic courses.
It was founded in 1929, and has hosted many events world, Asian and Japanese tournaments.
It is a 7466 yard par-71 course.
Results (Men Tournament)
Gold Medal: The Men’s Olympic golf event gold was won by American Xander Schauffele. He won by one stroke with an 18 under par performance.
Silver medal: Won by Rory Sabbatini playing for Slovakia. He performed 17 under par.
Bronze: Won by Pan Cheng-tsung of Chinese Taipei finishing 15 under power. Pan technically finished T3 with six other golfers but beat them all on the fourth playoff hole for the bronze medal.
Other T3 Players:
Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)
Collin Morikawa (USA)
Mito Pereira (CHI)
Sebastian Munoz (COL)
Rory McIlroy (IRL)
Paul Casey (GBR)
Indian Representation
The Indian men’s team was represented by 34-year-old Anirban Lahiri and 30-year-old Udayan Mane. Lahiri finished tied-42nd with score of 5-under par and Mane finished 56th with 3-over par.
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The Women’s team of India is being represented by, Aditi Ashok age 23 and Diksha Dagar, age 20. Their competition is from 04 to 07 August.
Best of luck to the Indian Women’s team.
In your opinion how will the women’s team perform?
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