Golf at the Summer Olympics

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Golf at the Summer Olympics
Golf pictogram.svg
Governing body IGF
Events 3 (men: 2; women: 1)
Games
  • 1924
  • 1928
  • 1932
  • 1936
  • 1948
  • 1952
  • 1956
  • 1960
  • 1964
  • 1968
  • 1972
  • 1976
  • 1980
  • 1984
  • 1988
  • 1992
  • 1996
  • 2000

Golf was featured in the Summer Olympic Games official programme in 1900 and 1904. At the IOC session in Copenhagen in October 2009, the IOC decided to reinstate this event for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1][2] The event will be open to professional golfers.

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 3 3 4 10
2  Canada (CAN) 1 0 0 1
3  Great Britain (GBR) 0 1 1 2
Total 4 4 5 13

Events

1900
  • Men's individual
  • Women's individual
1904
  • Men's individual
  • Men's team

Proposed

The International Golf Federation (IGF) has proposed[3] 72-hole stroke play tournaments (with a 3-hole playoff in the event of a tie) for both men's and women's events in 2016. Eligibility would be determined by IGF rankings. The top 15 players would be eligible (regardless of country) and then the next 45 players representing countries that do not already have two representatives.

Medal summary

Men's individual

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
details		  Charles Sands (USA)  Walter Rutherford (GBR)  David Robertson (GBR)
1904 St. Louis
details		 22x20px George Lyon (CAN)  Chandler Egan (USA)  Burt McKinnie (USA)
 Francis Newton (USA)
1908–2012 not included in the Olympic program

Women's individual

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
details		  Margaret Abbott (USA)  Pauline Whittier (USA)  Daria Pratt (USA)
1904–2012 not included in the Olympic program

Men's team

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1904 St. Louis
details		  United States (USA)
Robert Hunter
Chandler Egan
Kenneth Edwards
Clement Smoot
Walter Egan
Daniel Sawyer
Edward Cummins
Mason Phelps
Nathaniel Moore
Warren Wood		  United States (USA)
Albert Lambert
Stuart Stickney
Burt McKinnie
William Stickney
Ralph McKittrick
Frederick Semple
Francis Newton
Henry Potter
John Cady
John Maxwell		  United States (USA)
Douglass Cadwallader
Allen Lard
Jesse Carleton
Simeon Price
Harold Weber
John Rahm
Arthur Hussey
Orus Jones
Harold Fraser
George Oliver

Participating nations

22 golfers competed in 1900, including 10 women and 12 men. The 1904 tournament featured 77 golfers, all men. Albert Lambert was the only golfer who competed both times; a total of 93 different golfers competed throughout the brief history of Olympic golf.

1900
1904

See also

References

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External links

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