Australia would have been a fascinating squad at the 2024 Olympics.
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In the last three years of Pro Golf’s ecstasy, the frontline was shocked. It comes from a cold morning at TPC Sawgrass in 2024 by Rory McIlroy.
“For me, such a problem is a member organization problem,” McIlroy said. “Things are created for members. Then, once you create these things, you have to sell these things to fans, sponsors, media. To me, that seems a bit backward.
“I think what needs to happen is that you need to create something for fans, sponsors, media, and then you have to sell it to players and tell them to join that because if they are in it and now we are part of the business now, if the business is done better, we will do better, we will do better, and that’s simple for me.” It seems simple. ”
OK, it’s more than just one line. But this is an obvious point. Professional golf entities should compete with fans, sponsors and media and then have players join.
Although he was talking about the PGA tour 13 months ago, he may have been talking about the Olympics and the priority of Pro Golf over the years. It takes time to change your mind and new things to grab, and golf at the Olympics learns that. Accepting the secondary risk of Zika virus at the 2016 Olympic Games was a tough effort and skipped the second modern Olympic Games, which took place during Japan’s Covid Lockdown, which was televised in the middle of the United States.
The Olympics never felt like the pinnacle of the sport – in stark contrast to some classic Olympic sports, the competition is the pinnacle – but it has always been fun for fans and the media. It provides us with new elements of heritage, such as the golden grand slam, and new ways to promote the movement we care about. It’s a slow wave of architecture, especially for male golfers, swinging in the Paris suburbs in 2024.
Golf fans appearing in the tens of thousands of Le Golf National, making Jason Day as nervous as before in the first tee. Tom Kim ended his week by fighting for a medal on behalf of South Korea. McIlroy himself refuted his short-sightedness when he came to the Olympics for the first time. Here’s the convenience of last week’s news: As if they were using McIlroy’s words as a decree, the International Golf Federation announced that we will get more golf balls at the Olympics. In 2028, at the famous Riviera Country Club, we will see the first mixed doubles Olympic golf match, format fans have been begging.
Like clockwork, a debate revolves around the IGF’s classic competition every four years. Why is there no doubled golf game? Why can’t we pair Nelly Korda with Scottie Scheffler?
IGF knows about complications. Arrangement is the top priority. Olympic Week has twisted the schedules of the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour every four years – in early August, the additional commitment was one of the busiest months on the Pro Golf calendar. For men, last year means sticking with it after the European Open Championship before returning to the FedEx Cup playoffs. For women, it means leaving Evian, returning to the United States for a few weeks, and then returning to modern August in Europe. (Lydia Ko makes the most of it, winning the Olympics and the Women’s Open.)
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The next Olympic Games set in Los Angeles makes it easier to arrange difficult, not far from where most professionals live. But the future Olympics will become Australia in 2032, and an unknown part of 2036 (aka, far from home). If mixed doubles are part of the future, it will require some serious commitment, not something modern players are used to.
“I’m a huge advocate and I don’t knock it until you try it,” Xander Schauffele said in Paris. “My only problem will be a series of events; it’s two weeks in a row. If you have something we have right now, we’re playing this game, we have a week off, and then we have three weeks of playoffs. The playoffs will be very caring.
When coming up with the idea of a 36 hole day, Schauffele is straightforward to move things as quickly as possible.
“It’s more golf. Even if we’re going to play – maybe a day, and then I start 36 holes and you’re going to be back four days and there’s a lot of playoffs in three weeks in a row.”
Sure will. That’s why Schauffele’s perspective isn’t unique. Fortunately, every player who wins the medal is overcome with so much emotion that there is a very easy argument: Anyway, man. It’s worth it.
The winner is clear here? fan. Almost every week, golf fans compete in a 72-hole stroke competition. The Men’s Tour will no longer be in competitions. Both teams on both sides won most of the hits. The PGA and LPGA Tour have already combined a hybrid event in December (called the Grant Thornton Invitational), but it offers a greater company reach than the substance. So yes, golf viewing experience is basically homogeneous. That’s why this news has a certain enthusiasm. Some of the best golfers in the world will compete for six consecutive days, all in pursuit of something special (now two), and we benefit from the plot of watching new things, passionate and mixed events, each with a place on the podium.
The men will first compete in their 72 games, then take a replacement shot and another four-goal game, and then the women will compete in their individual games. The qualifiers for mixed doubles will only be those who are already eligible for singles competition. If they can find an opponent from their home country, they will have a team and the contestants are limited to one team in each country.
Last year’s team will include:
– Scottie Scheffler and Nelly Korda
-tom Kim and Jin Young Ko
-carl Yuan and Ruon Yin
-Matthieu Pavon and Celine Boutier
-Jason Day and Hannah Green
-Tommy Fleetwood and Charley Hull
-Hideki Matsuyama and Yuka Saso
-Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Jeeno Thitikul
-Rory McIlroy and Leona Maguire
– Nick Taylor and Brooke Henderson
-Ryan Fox and Lydia Ko
-ludvig Aberg and Maja Stark
-Jon Rahm and Carlota Ciganda
-Christiaan bezuidenhout and Ashleigh Buhai
-Carlos Ortiz and Gaby Lopez
The plot will extend until the Olympics. Who is Viktor Hovland paired with? (Celine Borge becomes Norway’s top champion in 2024.) We may be a pair of siblings for teammates. (Think Min Woo and Minjee Lee.) Rory McIlroy will be on the Golden Slam, but if he leans on Leona Maguire to claim gold, is that important? New question. Good question. Finally, everyone came to golf fans.
