A mixed-team golf occasion will likely be held on the Olympic Video games in Los Angeles following approval by the Worldwide Olympic Committee government board.
Organisers have stated it is going to contested as 36-hole competitors throughout two 18-hole rounds – foursomes and fourball – with a most of 1 staff per nation.
Groups will likely be comprised of 1 male and one feminine athlete from the person males’s and ladies’s competitions being held on the Video games.
The group occasion will happen in between the boys’s and the ladies’s competitions on the Riviera Nation Membership.
Golf returned to the Olympics at Rio 2016 after an absence of over a century, and LA 2028 will see the primary staff competitors since St Louis Video games of 1904.
Worldwide Golf Federation government director Antony Scanlon stated: “We’re excited to convey much more consideration to our sport by means of this extra format.
“The athletes have been very obsessed with their want to play with their compatriots, and we sit up for watching them compete collectively in Los Angeles.”
TeamGB’s Justin Rose received gold within the males’s particular person occasion in Rio slightly below a decade in the past whereas Tommy Fleetwood picked up the silver medal at Paris 2024.
Golf is one in all six sports activities – becoming a member of archery, athletics (4x100m blended relay), gymnastics, rowing coastal seaside dash and desk tennis – so as to add a mixed-gender competitors for LA 2028.
