Golf in the Olympic games

Golf sport history and score rule

Two meetings -- staged almost a century apart -- have each played significant roles in establishing golf’s Olympic Credentials.

It was on May 27, 1899, that the Organizing Committee for the 1900 Games included golf in the list of sports to be featured on the programs for the Olympic Games in Paris in 1900.

Fast forward 90 years to October 9, 2009, in Copenhagen. At the 121^st IOC session in the beautiful Danish city, golf was finally reinstated to the summer Olympics, initially for Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Tokyo in 2020. 

Fity- seven years after having organised the Olympic games, the Japanese capital will be hosting a Summer edition for the second time from 23 July to 8 August 2021, The Games in 1964 radically transformed the country, According to the organizers of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the games of the XXXII Olympiad of the modern era will be “the most innovative ever organised, and will rest on three fundamental principles to transform the world : striving for your personal best (achieving your personal best); accepting one another (unity in diversity) ;  and passing on a legacy for the future ( connecting to tomorrow )”.

Olympic games held in July to August in 2021 due to great influence by covid virus,delayed one year, but the passionate and enthusiasm not fade. Have you watched competition games? Let’s take a look of the rules about

--- Olympic Golf Competition Format

The golf competition consists of a 72- hole individual stroke play for both men and women (four rounds scheduled over four (4) consecutive days. Scores are cumulative from round to round. The player with the lowest aggregate score wins.

The men’s event will be staged from July 29 to August 1 and the women’s event from August - August 7, 2021.

For all rounds, the intention is to play in groups of three athletes. Depending on the final competition schedule and pending confirmation from the Olympic Broadcasting Services groups will start wither form the tee 1 only or from both the tee 10. Such determination will be made well in advance of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.However, due to weather or other unforeseen circumstance, play could be in groups of two or three athletes and/ or starting on the first and tenth tees for any or all of the competition rounds.

The remainder of the field will likewise be grouped in a similar sequence.