Golf at the Olympics

So far, golf has only been part of the program at the Summer Olympics in 1900 and 1904 . At the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016 , competitions in this discipline were held again after a break of 112 years. Golf should also be an Olympic discipline at the 2020 summer games in Tokyo and 2024 in Paris .

Games

Paris 1900

George Lyon, Olympic gold medalist in 1904

→ Main article : Golf at the 1900 Olympic Games

For the 1900 Games in Paris, two golf tournaments were recognized by the IOC as Olympic: one for women and one for men. The Americans Margaret Abbott and Charles Sands were the first Olympic champions. On the 9-hole course of the Société du Sport in Compiègne , a place 80 km north of Paris, the women played one round, the men four. A total of 22 golfers took part, 10 women and 12 men.

St. Louis 1904

→ Main article : Golf in the 1904 Olympics

In St. Louis 1904, the women's competition was replaced by a team competition. The game was played on an 18-hole course at Glen Echo Country Club . 75 men took part in the individual competition. Gold surprisingly won George Lyon , one of the three participating Canadians. All other participants came from the USA.

Rio de Janeiro 2016

→ Main article : Golf in the 2016 Olympics

At the 121st IOC meeting in Copenhagen on October 9, 2009, golf was reintroduced into the Olympic program. A tournament was planned for men and women, four rounds of 18 holes were played.

Overview competitions for men

Golf - Current competitions
competition	00	04	06	08	12	20th	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20th	Games
	Men
singles	•	•																										•	•	4th
Golf - Former Competitions
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	Men
team		•																												1
Number of competitions	1	2																										1	1

Overview competitions for women

Golf - Current competitions
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	Women
singles	•																											•	•	3
Number of competitions	1																											1	1

Medal table

Medal table
space	team	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	United States	3	3	5	11
2	United Kingdom	1	1	1	3
3	Canada	1	0	0	1
4th	Sweden	0	1	0	1
	to hum	5	5	6th	16

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz : The games of the III. 1904 Olympics in St. Louis . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1998, ISBN 3-89784-259-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olympia: Golf will remain an Olympic discipline beyond 2020. Golfpost, September 17, 2017, accessed September 26, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Golf and rugby will be Olympic in 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2013 ; Retrieved February 28, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.