On March 7, 2012, the organizers of the 2016
Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro selected the
team of
Gil Hanse
and
Amy Alcott
to design
the course that will host the first Olympics golf
competition since 1904.
Antony Scanlon
, the ex-
ecutive director of the International Golf Federa-
tion, discussed the decision process, the site for
the course and the timetable leading up to the
2016 Games. Scanlon worked on many Olym-
pic Games for both the International Olympic
Committee and various organizing committees
before joining the IGF, which is the international
federation for golf for the IOC.
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“I just thought it was going to be that easy and
I expected to win every week,” says Granada.
“But I changed a little bit of my golf game so that
didn’t really help. Like I was expecting to shoot
5 under but I was shooting 2 over. But, I really
wasn’t putting pressure on myself, I just wanted
to get better and by getting better I made some
bad decisions, which cost me a little bit. But I’m
okay with that.”
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REINVENTING JULIETA
BUBBA TO INVADE IRELAND?
Masters champion
Bubba Watson
doesn’t
rule out making a surprise appearance at this
year’s Irish Open. The flamboyant left-hander,
33, played Ireland’s great links courses for the
first time when he was a student. And after
making the cut in The Open for the first time last
year, a warm-up at Royal Portrush could be just
the ticket as he prepares for the oldest major at
Royal Lytham three weeks later. Asked about the
possibility of an Irish Open tilt June 28-July 1, a
green-jacketed Watson said: “Maybe.”
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