Golf at the Summer Olympics

Golf at the Summer Olympics
Governing body IGF
Events 2 (men: 1; women: 1)
Games
1896 • 1900 • 1904 • 1908 • 1912 • 1920
1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952
1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976
1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000
2004 • 2008 • 2012
Medalists

Golf was featured in the Summer Olympic Games official programme in 1900 and 1904. At the IOC session in Copenhagen in October 2009, the IOC decided to reinstate this event for the 2016 Summer Olympics.[1][2] The event will feature professional golfers, many of whom have expressed interest in having golf brought back as an Olympic sport.

Contents

Medal table

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  United States (USA) 3 3 4 10
2  Canada (CAN) 1 0 0 1
3  Great Britain (GBR) 0 1 1 2
Total 4 4 5 13

Events

1900
1904

Medal summary

Men's Individual

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
details		  Charles Sands (USA)  Walter Rutherford (GBR)  David Robertson (GBR)
1904 St. Louis
details		  George Lyon (CAN)  Chandler Egan (USA)  Burt McKinnie (USA)
 Francis Newton (USA)
1906–2012 not included in the Olympic program

Women's Individual

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1900 Paris
details		  Margaret Ives Abbott (USA)  Pauline Whittier (USA)  Daria Pratt (USA)
1904–2012 not included in the Olympic program

Men's Team

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1904 St. Louis
details		  United States (USA)
Robert Hunter
Chandler Egan
Kenneth Edwards
Clement Smoot
Walter Egan
Daniel Sawyer
Edward Cummins
Mason Phelps
Nathaniel Moore
Warren Wood		  United States (USA)
Albert Lambert
Stuart Stickney
Burt McKinnie
William Stickney
Ralph McKittrick
Frederick Semple
Francis Newton
Henry Potter
John Cady
John Maxwell		  United States (USA)
Douglass Cadwallader
Allen Lard
Jesse Carleton
Simeon Price
Harold Weber
John Rahm
Arthur Hussey
Orus Jones
Harold Fraser
George Oliver

Participating nations

22 golfers competed in 1900, including 10 women and 12 men. The 1904 tournament featured 77 golfers, all men. Albert Lambert was the only golfer who competed both times; a total of 93 different golfers competed throughout the brief history of Olympic golf.

1900
1904

See also

References

  1. ^ Wilson, Stephen (August 13, 2009). "Golf, rugby backed by IOC board for 2016 Games". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2009656175_apolyiocnewsports.html. Retrieved 2009-08-14. 
  2. ^ "Golf & rugby voted into Olympics". BBC. 2009-10-09. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic_games/8292584.stm. 

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