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Notes: Tour needs players for Rio test event

HONOLULU - With golf joining the Olympics for the first time since 1904,

''We've got a good list of players who are, quote, interested in coming,'' PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said. ''But we don't have a long list of players who are committed to coming. That's the case with the guys who are currently playing on the PGA Tour, just because of the schedule, looking ahead to the summer, seeing the compaction. So I don't know.''

The test event is planned for March 8, and the tour has lined up a charter flight for its members.