Top-ranked Jordan Spieth values the Olympics just as much or more than his elite golf peers, but he also has a sense of humor about the sport’s return to the Games in August.
“You won a gold medal for your country [in golf] in the Olympics, some day you could go ahead and lie and say it was a triathlon or you could say it was whatever and seem like a real athlete,” Spieth joked in Abu Dhabi ahead of a tournament on Wednesday.
Spieth was also asked what athlete he’d like to chat with at the Olympic Village in Rio.