The Australia team would have made an interesting team at the 2024 Olympics.
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During the last three years of Ranco in Pro Golf, a line in particular hit me different from any other. He came from Rory Mcilroy on a cold morning in TPC Sawgrass in 2024.
“For me, like this is the problem with a member organization,” Mcilroy said. “Things are created for members. Then after those things are created, you have to go to sell those things to fans, sponsors, media. For me, it looks a little behind.
“I think what should happen is that you have to create things for fans, sponsors, media, and then you have to go to sell it to the players, tell them to get on board with this, because if they get on board and we are all part of the business now, if the business does better, we do better for me.”
Okay, this is much more than just one line. But it is a special, clear perspective. That the professional golf entity must create competition with fans, sponsors and media in mind, and then take the players on board.
Although he was talking about PGA Tour when he said that 13 months ago, he could also have spoken about the Olympics, and the prioritization of Pro Golf for him over the years. It takes time for people to change their minds and new things to catch, and golf at the Olympics has learned that the difficult way. Was a fight to get the best players in the world to accept the small danger of Zika virus in the 2016 games in Brazil, and some bypassed the second modern Olympic event, which was held During the blocking of Covid in JapanTelevision in the middle of the night in America.
The Olympic Games have never been felt like the peak of sports for players – in contrast to some classic Olympic sports for which the games are the peak – but it has been extremely entertaining for fans and the media. It gives us new elements of heritage to care – like Golden Slam – and new ways of promoting the sport we care about. Has been a slow wave of construction, especially for male players, who Crested in 2024 on the outskirts of Paris.
Golf fans appeared in tens of thousands in Le Golf National, making Jason day as nervous as he has ever been to 1. Tom Kim finished his week in tears struggling for a medal on behalf of Korea. Mcilroy himself accepted his short appearance to reject golf at the Olympics when he first came. Which is a suitable split for last week’s news: as if they use Mcilroy’s words as a decree, the International Golf Federation announced that we will all get more golf at the Olympics. In 2028, at the famous Riviera country club, we will see the first Olympic golf of mixed Competition, a format fans have been begging.
Like the clock, every four years a debate has surrounded the IgF scene of a classic tour. Why is there no golf competition in pairs? Why can’t we get nelly cord to join Scottie Scheffler?
IGF knows complications. Programming is the main between them. The Olympics weeks have contained PGA Tour and LPGA Tour schedules every four years – asking an extra week of engagement in early August, one of the busiest months in the Pro Golf Calendar. For men, last year it meant to refrain after the open championship in Europe before returning to the FedEx Cup Play off. For women, this meant leaving Europe from Evian, returning to states for several weeks, just to return to Europe for almost August. (Lydia Ko used the most, winning Olympics and The Women’s Open.)
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This difficulty planning becomes easier by the next Olympics that is settling in Los Angeles, not far from the place where most of these lives live. But the next Olympics will be Australia in 2032 and unknown parts in 2036 (AKA, away from home). If mixed doubles are part of the future, it will require a serious commitment beyond what the modern player is taught.
“I am a great lawyer of not knocking on it until you try it,” Xander Schauffle said in Paris. “My only will with it would be a kind of events; being two weeks in a row. If you take it for what we have now, we are playing this tournament, we have a week rest and then we have three weeks for our Play off.
When introduced to the idea of a day with 36 holes, to get things in motion as soon as possible, Schauffle was open.
“Still even more golf. Even if we were to play – it would be a day in the middle maybe and then I start 36 holes, and then you go back with four days to go, three weeks Play -off is a lot.”
It would certainly be. That is why Schauffle’s opinion will not be a unique. Fortunately, every player who has won a medal has been overcome with so much emotion that there is a very easy argument: Whatever, man. It will be worth it.
Clear winners here? Fans. Golf fans are presented with tours for 72 holes almost every week of the calendar year. The men’s tour no longer has a match tour. Team events with two players-on both sides-Nets to enter mainly and with giggle. PGA and LPGA Tours are combined in the field of a mixed event in December – known as the Thornton Invitational Grant – but it offers more influence of the corporation than substances. So yes, the experience of golf viewing is largely homogeneous. That is why this news has a certain vibrancy for it. Some of the best players in the world will play six right days of competition, all in pursuit of something special (two something, now), and we take advantage of looking at something new, full of passion and intrigue of an event with everyone following a place on the podium.
