{"id":3762,"date":"2021-08-03T06:01:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T00:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:35:05","slug":"golf-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/08\/03\/golf-at-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"162: GOLF AT OLYMPICS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3765 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/tee-and-golf-ball-financial-times-248x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/tee-and-golf-ball-financial-times-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/tee-and-golf-ball-financial-times.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">Pic Courtesy:\u00a0 Financial Times<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">Golf featured in the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 at Paris and 1904 at St. Louis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Thereafter it was it was reinstated in 2016 Summer Olympics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">Qualification for the Olympics is based primarily upon the Official World Golf Ranking (men) and Women&#8217;s World Golf Rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">Total of 60 players compete for the medal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">Stroke play is used at the Games, with athletes playing four rounds of 18 holes (72 Holes) over four days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">USA is the leader in the medal tally of so far conducted tournaments with 12 medals followed by Great Britain with 3 medals.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><u>TOKYO OLYMPICS<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3764 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Golf_Rio_2016-wikipedia-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Golf_Rio_2016-wikipedia-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Golf_Rio_2016-wikipedia-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Golf_Rio_2016-wikipedia-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Golf_Rio_2016-wikipedia.png 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Pic Courtesy: Wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><u>Olympic Golf venue<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">Kasumigaseki Country Club in the verdant Musashino Hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">Japan has nearly 2000 golf courses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">Kasumigaseki is the venue for Tokyo 2020 Men\u2019s &amp; Women\u2019s golf competitions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">It is one of the oldest and most prestigious historic courses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">It was founded in 1929, and has hosted many events world, Asian and Japanese tournaments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">It is a 7466 yard par-71 course.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><u>Results (Men Tournament)<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #0000ff;\"><u>Gold Medal<\/u>: The Men\u2019s Olympic golf event gold was won by American Xander Schauffele. He won by one stroke with an 18 under par performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\"><u>Silver medal<\/u>: Won by Rory Sabbatini playing for Slovakia. He performed 17 under par.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><u>Bronze<\/u>: 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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><u>Other T3 Players<\/u>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Collin Morikawa (USA)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Mito Pereira (CHI)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Sebastian Munoz (COL)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Rory McIlroy (IRL)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Paul Casey (GBR)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><strong><u>Indian Representation<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">The Indian men\u2019s 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\u00a03-over par.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><u><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3763 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-Golf_pictogram.svg-wikipedia-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-Golf_pictogram.svg-wikipedia-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-Golf_pictogram.svg-wikipedia-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-Golf_pictogram.svg-wikipedia-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-Golf_pictogram.svg-wikipedia-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-Golf_pictogram.svg-wikipedia-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-Golf_pictogram.svg-wikipedia.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Pic Courtesy: Wikipedia<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">The Women\u2019s team of India is being represented by, Aditi Ashok age 23 and Diksha Dagar, age 20. Their competition is from 04 to 07 August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">Best of luck to the Indian Women&#8217;s team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In your opinion how will the women&#8217;s team perform?<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\">For regular updates please register here &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Pic Courtesy:\u00a0 Financial Times Golf featured in the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 at Paris and 1904 at St. Louis. &nbsp; Thereafter it was it was reinstated in 2016 Summer Olympics. &nbsp; Qualification for the Olympics is based primarily upon the Official World Golf Ranking (men) and Women&#8217;s World Golf Rankings. &nbsp; Total of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/08\/03\/golf-at-olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;162: GOLF AT OLYMPICS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16,96,1],"tags":[70,69],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-events","category-golf","category-uncategorized","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}