A confluence of short-sightedness from some of the top-ranked players concerning the schedule and an increase in the visibility of the Zika virus, and now the world is left to wonder what golf’s return to the Olympics is actually going to look like. As the sport returns to the games for the first time since 1904, all the talk leading up to the event in crime-plagued and health-challenged Rio de Janeiro, has been who is playing and who has pulled out — and why. Nothing was more shocking than when Rory McIlroy, the former world No. 1 and four-time major champion, made a mockery of the whole event before the Open Championship in Scotland on July 12. “I’ll probably watch the Olympics, but I’m...
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