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  2. Golf is officially recognized as firstly featuring in the Summer Olympic Games programme in 1900 and was also contested at the 1904 Summer Olympics. A golf tournament was to have been held in 1908, but it was cancelled less than two days before it was scheduled to start. [1]

  3. Mar 5, 2024 · Golf first became an Olympic sport during the second edition of the modern Games, Paris 1900. It returned for the 1904 Games in St. Louis, but then took a 112-year hiatus before finally returning to the Olympic program for Rio 2016, and later, Tokyo 2020.

  4. Jul 30, 2024 · Golf is one of the oldest sports in history, but it has only been included in the Olympics four times. In 2024, it will make its fifth appearance in these prestigious games. Golf made its debut...

    • Ankita Yadav
  5. Oct 19, 2017 · Golf appeared at the Olympic Games for the first time in Paris in 1900. It was also on the programme of the Games in St Louis in 1904. Set to be staged for the Games in London in 1908, in the end it was not organised. It subsequently did not feature on the programme but has been re-introduced on the programme for the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016.

  6. Jul 24, 2024 · The 1900 men's Olympic golf competition was contested by amateur players over 36 holes, with American Charles Sands winning the gold medal by a stroke over Walter Rutherford of Scotland. Sands also competed in 1900's singles and doubles tennis competitions in the Olympics.

    • Tim Gavrich
  7. Golf at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan featured two events, individual competitions for men and women. [1] Golf returned to the Olympics in 2016, for the first time since 1904.

  8. There was both a men's and women's competition in 2016 in Rio, and at all Olympic Games since. The previous time golf was played at the Olympics was over 100 years before, in 1904. See more about the first Olympic Golf tournaments.