ST. ANDREWS, Scotland – It's clear that when golf makes its re-entry into the Olympics for the first time in a century, that it will be only part of a bigger process to find a comfortable home for one of the world’s oldest games.
Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, said Saturday in a news conference at the 144th British Open that the spread of the game worldwide has been key for golf’s first appearance in the Summer Games since 1904. Bach cited the fact that more than 40 nations' Olympic committees will fill out the 120-player field – 60 men, 60 women – for the two-week event in August 2016 at Rio de Janeiro.