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Golf at the Summer Olympics

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Golf is officially recognized as firstly featuring in the Summer Olympic Games programme in 1900 and was also contested at the 1904 Summer Olympics. A golf tournament was to have been held in 1908, but it was cancelled less than two days before it was scheduled to start. Two golf tournaments were also to have been held in 1920, but were cancelled due to a lack of entries.

At the IOC session in Copenhagen in October 2009, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to reinstate the sport for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The International Golf Federation is the governing body for golf at the Olympic Games. Qualification is based primarily upon the Official World Golf Ranking (men) and Women's World Golf Rankings, with the top 15 of each gender automatically qualifying (with a limit of four per country), and then the highest ranked players from countries that had not yet already qualified two players.

Medal table

Sources:

Total

Men

Women

Events

;1900

Men's individual
Women's individual ;1904
Men's individual
Men's team

;1908 A men's individual tournament was planned for the 1908 London Games, but a dispute amongst representatives of England and Scotland over the format led to British golfers boycotting, leaving 1904 gold medallist George Lyon of Canada as the only remaining entrant. He was entitled to claim the gold medal but declined.

;1920 Two golf tournaments were planned at the 1920 Antwerp Games, but were cancelled due to a lack of entries.

;2016

Men's individual
Women's individual ;2020
Men's individual
Women's individual ;2024
Men's individual
Women's individual ;2028
Men's individual
Women's individual
Mixed team

Since its reintroduction, Olympic golf competitions have consisted of men's and women's individual stroke play. There had been calls for the IGF and the IOC to consider adding a match play tournament, a team tournament, and/or to open up the Olympic tournament to more golfers, possibly by using a different qualifying system than the World Golf Ranking. In April 2025, it was announced that a new mixed team event will be added to golf for the 2028 Summer Olympics; it will be contested between 16 pairs drawn from those who have qualified for the Olympic tournaments, and consist of alternate shot and four-ball rounds.

Courses

Year	Host city	Course(s)	1900	1904	1908	1920	2016	2020	2024	2028	2032
FRA Paris	Compiègne Golf Club
USA St. Louis	Glen Echo Country Club, Normandy, Missouri
GBR London	Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent
Prince's Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent
Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal, Kent
BEL Antwerp	Cappelen's Golf Club, Antwerp
BRA Rio de Janeiro	Olympic Golf Course, Barra da Tijuca
JPN Tokyo	Kasumigaseki Country Club, Kawagoe
FRA Paris	Le Golf National, Guyancourt
USA Los Angeles	Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades, California
AUS Brisbane	Royal Queensland Golf Club, Eagle Farm, Queensland

Medal summary

Men's individual

1900 Paris
1904 St. Louis
1908	1912	1920	1924–2012	2016 Rio
2020 Tokyo
2024 Paris

Charles Sands	Walter Rutherford	David Robertson
George Lyon	Chandler Egan	Burt McKinnie
Francis Newton
cancelled}}
not included in the Olympic program}}
cancelled}}
not included in the Olympic program}}
Justin Rose	Henrik Stenson	Matt Kuchar
Xander Schauffele	Rory Sabbatini	Pan Cheng-tsung
Scottie Scheffler	Tommy Fleetwood	Hideki Matsuyama

Women's individual

1900 Paris
1904–2012	2016 Rio
2020 Tokyo
2024 Paris

Margaret Abbott	Pauline Whittier	Daria Pratt
not included in the Olympic program}}
Inbee Park	Lydia Ko	Shanshan Feng
Nelly Korda	Mone Inami	Lydia Ko
Lydia Ko	Esther Henseleit	Lin Xiyu

Men's team

1904 St. Louis

USA {{plainlist	1=

Participating nations

22 golfers competed in 1900. The 1904 tournament featured 77 golfers. Albert Lambert was the only golfer who competed both times; a total of 98 different golfers competed throughout the brief history of Olympic golf before it was brought back in 2016.

References

(31 May 1908). "Golf {{!}} Olympic competitions Abandoned". The People.
Wilson, Stephen. (August 13, 2009). "Golf, rugby backed by IOC board for 2016 Games". The Seattle Times.
(2009-10-09). "Golf & rugby voted into Olympics". BBC Sport.
Harig, Bob. (5 March 2014). "Olympic golf qualifying date set". ESPN.
"Olympic Games - Qualification System - IGF". International Golf Federation.
Axson, Scooby. (14 July 2014). "Rules for golf qualifying in the 2016 Olympic Games: U.S. will only get four players no matter how many in Top 15".
"International Golf Federation". olympic.org.
"Olympic Analytics - Medals by Countries".
(1984). "The Complete Book To The Olympics". Penguin Books.
(4 July 1920). "Olympic Golf Abandoned". The New York Times.
"Golf". [[Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games]].
(2021-07-02). "Fixing Olympic Golf".
Herrington, Ryan. (April 15, 2025). "After IOC approves mixed-team golf event for the 2028 Olympics, IGF announces format".
Church, Ben. (2025-04-16). "Los Angeles 2028 Olympics will feature mixed-gender golf event, as new venues confirmed for Games".

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