ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – The test event for the Olympic golf course in Rio de Janeiro will take place in the first quarter of 2016, the International Golf Federation announced here Monday.
With the Olympics a little more than a year away, the test event at the new Gil Hanse-designed course will be one of the last requirements to certify the course and infrastructure as being ready for the Olympic Games on Aug. 5-21, 2016.
The International Olympic Committee had scheduled a test event for the last week of November, but after a thorough review by the PGA Tour agronomy staff and IGF representatives in June, the IGF recommended that the test event be delayed until early 2016.