2028 Olympic golf may include a mixed-team competition

Olympic golf could also be increasing for the 2028 Olympic Video games in Los Angeles.

There’s motion towards the creation of a mixed-team competitors for the 2028 Video games, in keeping with the Related Press. The Olympic golf competitions that yr might be performed at Riviera Nation Membership, which hosts the PGA Tour’s The Genesis Invitational.

The addition could possibly be introduced as quickly because the Masters in three weeks’ time.

The mixed-team competitors would virtually actually come within the type of a two-person group, with a male participant and a feminine participant forming the combo on behalf of their nation. Within the present rating system, the US group would encompass males’s world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and ladies’s world No. 2 Nelly Korda. The very best-ranking female and male participant from every eligible nation would kind a group.

In line with the AP, the sector would seemingly function 36 groups and be performed in between the boys’s particular person competitors, which might run Wednesday via Saturday of the 2028 Olympics. The 2-day combined competitors would then be performed, adopted by the ladies’s particular person competitors.

The precise format and variety of rounds for the combined group competitors are unclear, although it could possibly be a spherical of group golf (alternate shot or best-ball) after which every particular person participant’s rating in a second spherical counting towards the group complete for a 54-hole set of scores.

Increasing Olympic golf to incorporate a group part has been on the prime of the want checklist since golf got here again to the Olympics in 2016. With two Olympics now within the books and a 3rd set to unfold in Paris this summer season, it now seems there is a chance to carry a group part to the competitions.

This transfer appears to observe rapidly from the success of the Grant Thornton Invitational final December, which was a co-sanctioned group occasion pairing PGA Tour and LPGA Tour gamers. Jason Day and Lydia Ko proved victorious in that event.