CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Adam Scott has a daughter, his firstborn, who will be 18 months old this summer. After careful consideration, he decided his child should take precedence over the baby conceived by an abbreviation-heavy crowd — the I.O.C. and Augusta National, the P.G.A., the R&A, the L.P.G.A., the U.S.G.A. and the I.G.F. — for delivery at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics after a seven-year gestation period.
After a disappointing tie for 42nd at the Masters in his sixth start in an eight-week stretch, Scott took stock of his schedule. If he participated at the Rio Games in golf’s modern-era Olympic debut, Scott would have spent seven days with his family in the nine weeks between the United States Open, which starts June 16, and the end of the men’s Olympic competition in mid-August.