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The Latest: Golf tees off at Olympics; 1st time since 1904

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics from Rio de Janeiro (all times local):

4:50 a.m.

Golf tees off for the first time at the Olympics since 1904 as the men start their first round of play at the Olympic Golf Course — although the top four players in the world won't be competing because of Zika fears.

The links-style layout stretches 7,128 yards (6,515 meters) and was built in the hopes it can both challenge some of the world's best in Rio de Janeiro and then grow the game in Brazil.