Ranking Unveiled To Remind Us Olympic Golf Is Happening
/Rex Hoggard first broke it and now he
Read MoreWhen you come to think of it that is the secret of most of the great holes all over the world. They all have some kind of a twist. C.B. MACDONALD
Rory Decides He’s More Irish Than British
/Rory McIlroy has made the right choice in declaring that he's no longer
Read MoreProsecutors Call For Suspension Of Rio 2016 Course Construction
/A Shanghai Daily item translating a story from Brazil's O Globo is reporting
Read MoreOlympic Bosses Make Secret Inquiry To London For 2016
/Benedict Moore Bridger of the London Evening Standard
Read MoreNBC Locks Up Olympics Through 2032, With Or Without Golf!
/The IOC awards U.S. rights through 2032,
Read MoreIOC VP Says Rio Games Preparation "The Worst" & Doesn't Even Mention The Golf Course!
/In the first of what will be many International Olympic Committee-tied stories
Read MoreDawson: Rio Olympic Test Event Unlikely
/This is hardly shocking news nor particulary important to your life,
Read MoreDVR Alert: In Play W/Jimmy Roberts Goes To Rio!
/Sounds so, so fun doesn't it? As in, maybe we'll see Jimmy Roberts playing beach volleyball on Copacabana Beach in a Speedo? But I'm sad to say, it really isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially if you've seen the "progress" the country is making toward the 2016 Olympic Games.
The season two premiere of In Play kicks by unveiling the many months of footage compiled by producer Matt Miller, Paul Berner and Neil Munroe, including the first ever public showing of the architect selection presentation. You'll also see me briefly mentioning what a fiasco the whole thing Rio is. Anything to bring levity to the show!
The show also features a segment with Jimmie Johnson, who apparently won the Daytona 500 yesterday in the eyes of some at Fox.
Boy, Jimmy knows how land the big "gets" at just the right time.
Update on 2014-02-24 20:33 by Geoff
**Both Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner were on Morning Drive to talk about the progress in Rio.
Wagner here.
Hanse here.
Hanse: Rio Course Probably Has Its Test Event
/When three of the five families announced the start of the new Latin America Amateur Championship
Read MoreVideo: Gil Hanse Talks Rio Olympic Design Issues
/Here is my update on the Olympic golf course project in Rio, and now you can hear from Gil Hanse and see some great aerial views of the site under construction in this CNN International interview with Shane O'Donohue.
You can see a larger version here, or watch the embed below:
The story is followed by an O'Donoghue report on golf in Latin America where he tried to get on the Olympic site but was unable to, so they went aerial.
Rio Course Update: We're In The 90-Day Critical Phase
/In the February, 2014 Golf Digest I filed an
Read MoreRio Olympics: Consider Favela Living Come 2016!
/Simon Romero with the NY Times front page
Read MoreRio Olympic Course Nearing The Panama Canal!
/Okay, the irrigation system is anyway. Let's hope Captain Phillips is manning the ship.
Read MoreNot: This Week's World Cup As Olympic Golf Preview
/Dennis Pasa says this week's World Cup at Royal Melbourne offers a "glimpse of what to expect when golf returns to the Olympics at Rio de Janeiro in 2016." Until it doesn't. Which Pasa points out.
First, there is the Britain/Ireland mess in 2016 that the PGA Tour's common sense deals with. Take note IOC and friends.
At the Olympics, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland compete as Britain. But at the World Cup, England, Scotland and Wales will compete as separate countries. To muddy the waters a bit more at the World Cup, the tradition is for Ireland and Northern Ireland to compete as Ireland. McIlroy is not competing at Royal Melbourne this week, and is confident he still retains the selection choice for the Olympics.
As for the format...it's almost Olympic-like.
Players in the top 15 on the Official World Golf Ranking gain access to the World Cup, with the exception that there will be no more than four players for any country. After the top 15, up to two players are allowed per country until the field of about 60 is filled.
It's still largely an individual event even though the old World Cup was more about the team. I say, we'll live. We get another week of great players at Royal Melbourne and the Olympic format is a lost cause anyway! You can follow the action online here at the PGA Tour's World Cup page. In the USA, coverage starts Wednesday night on Golf Channel at 9 pm ET.
About The Whole Alligator Olympic Golf Course Story...
/One thing we've already learned about the Rio 2016 games: coverage of the course creation, opening and the games may be severely hampered by a lack of understanding of...golf.
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