And Yet Another Clarification About The 2016 Olympic Golf Field Makeup

So today I noted Garry Smits's item pointing out that only a maximum of 4 players from one country inside the top 15 can make the Rio 2016 field of sixty competing for Olympic gold.

Earlier, Ryan Ballengee had listed the field if 2012 held a golf competition and eight Americans would have been in the field.

It turns out, I've learned both reports were correct.

Here's where the confusion lies: the current field makeup would have allowed for the 2012 field as outlined by Ballengee. But a pending change in the field structure, reportedly requested by the IOC to comply with their guidelines in similar fashion to the controversial Jordan Wieber situation that is causing so much heartache, will be enacted next year. This will then mean that inside the top 15 for the Olympic golf field, only four players from one country can make the Olympic field.

It will be very interesting come 2016 to see who gets eliminated by this IOC mandated change, but it's almost assuredly going to be controversial.