Mixed-team golf may be coming to the Olympics in 2028.
Antony Scanlon, executive director of the International Golf Federation, told Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner that the IGF put a submission to the International Olympic Committee at the beginning of last year for men and women to represent their countries together at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles.
“There was about 23 events at the Olympic Games in Paris that were mixed teams events,” Scanlon said. “There’s great, great enthusiasm amongst our players to do that event at the games to add to the success that we’ve had with the individual events of the men and the women. And with an event such as the Grant Thornton [Invitational] … it’s another opportunity for our athletes to display their skills together … and to win another medal.”…