"The Olympic competition would be four days of individual stroke play for men and women."

In the April 18 Golf World, Ron Sirak opens The Bunker with an item atttempting to figure out why there is this sudden love for golf in the Olympics, a movement that finally received an official endorsement from Tim Finchem this week.

Sirak's piece sounds very similar to something we would have read a few years ago when the last Olympic golf push last died. There's the USGA's David Fay and R&A's Peter Dawson pushing hard in the name of growing the game. Besides the obvious hypocrisy of pushing for growth as they have defended "progress" in distance advances that bloated the game, the "International Golf Federation" predictably came up with a format that will do absolutely nothing to demonstrate the potential thrills and passion that we see in Ryder Cup golf.

Sirak writes, "The Olympic competition would be four days of individual stroke play for men and women."

Couple that with the possibility that the Olympics could go to Chicago in 2016 where the least interesting course possible will be selected (Kemper Lakes...no wait, Olympia Fields!), and it's hard to see how this would grow the game.