RIO DE JANEIRO – Sergio Garcia wore the colors of Spain and he spent Tuesday morning playing the Olympic Golf Course with his countryman Rafa Cabrera Bello looking every bit the team, but don’t confuse the men’s competition for a team event.
The format for Olympic golf is 72 holes of individual stroke play, just as it is most weeks in professional golf; and while the status quo has done nothing to dampen Garcia’s enthusiasm for the Games he did explain a creative format could have made things more interesting.
“I would have loved it to be something a little bit different.