TROON, Scotland, July 14 (Reuters) - Ladies European Tour (LET) chief executive Ivan Khodabakhsh has dismissed the idea that golf will be excluded from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after a British bookmaker offered odds of 10-1 on the prospect.
A host of big-name male withdrawals from next month's Games in Rio de Janeiro including the top four in the world, Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, has caused a media frenzy at this week's British Open.
Ladbrokes reacted to the furore by opening a book on the possibility of golf, which is returning to the Olympics in August for the first time since 1904, being excluded in Japan.