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 would contested as 36-hole competitors throughout two 18-hole rounds – foursomes and fourball – with a most of 1 crew per nation.
Groups will likely be comprised of 1 male and one feminine athlete from the person males’s and girls’s competitions being held on the Video games.
The group occasion will happen in between the lads’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 crew 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 this extra format.
“The athletes had been very keen about their want to play with their compatriots, and we stay up for watching them compete collectively in Los Angeles.”
TeamGB’s Justin Rose gained gold within the males’s particular person occasion in Rio just below a decade in the past whereas Tommy Fleetwood picked up the silver medal at Paris 2024.
Golf is one in every of six sports activities – becoming a member of archery, athletics (4x100m combined relay), gymnastics, rowing coastal seashore dash and desk tennis – so as to add a mixed-gender competitors for LA 2028.
