ST. ANDREWS, Scotland — Only individual medals will be awarded next year when golf returns to the Olympics for the first time since 1904. Whether a team competition is added for Tokyo in 2020 depends partly on the success of golf in Rio, and more on whether the IOC deems it worthy of adding golf medals.
Based on the Olympic Agenda, IOC president Thomas Bach said there can be no more than 320 events in 2020.
The hard part would seem to be the format for a team competition. The answer might have come in the Youth Olympic Games last year in China.