Golf Week · Jul 11, 2016
Without top players in world, Olympic golf will be just another Tour-type event
Jordan Spieth will not play in the 2016 Olympics, the International Golf Federation announced Monday at the British Open.TROON, Scotland – Golf in the Olympics will be no bigger than a middle-of-the-road PGA Tour or European Tour event as the field was set Monday by the International Golf Federation.
The lack of strength became official when Peter Dawson, the IGF’s president, announced that American Jordan Spieth would skip the Rio Olympics along with France’s Victor Dubuisson and South Korea’s K.T. Kim.