Golf
Australian Open 2011
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Olympic history (pre London 2012)
Golf has been on the Olympic Games program twice in 1900 and in 1904. At the 1900 Paris Olympic Games, two events were staged, one for men and one for women. Americans Margaret Ives Abbott and Charles Edward Sands were the first Olympic champions in the two events. In 1904 in St Louis, the women’s event was replaced by a team event.
At the 121st International Olympic Committee (IOC) session, held in October in 2009 in Copenhagen, the IOC members voted in favour of re-introducing golf to the Olympic Games program.
The sport will be played at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games for the first time in more than 100 years.
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