Famous person siblings Min Woo Lee and Minjee Lee may play collectively on the 2028 Olympics after LA organisers confirmed the addition of a blended golf occasion to the schedule.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee made it official when it launched this system for the 2028 Video games.Golf returned to the Olympic program on the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Video games after a 112-year absence, and it has caught to the tour mannequin of 72-hole stroke play occasions, one for the boys and one for the ladies.
However amid lobbying by the Worldwide Golf Federation, and gamers, for a mixed-team competitors, LA officers opted to incorporate the third competitors, in between the boys’s and girls’s particular person occasions.
“The Worldwide Golf Federation is thrilled with the IOC Govt Board’s choice to approve the addition of a mixed-team occasion to the Olympic Golf program,” the IGF stated in an announcement.
Whereas particulars of how the occasion would run are to be confirmed, it’s understood the boys’s competitors would begin on Wednesday — in the future sooner than earlier than — and finish on Saturday.
The blended groups would then be held over two days, Sunday and Monday, with foursomes (alternate shot) used for one spherical and 4 balls (higher ball) the opposite.
There can be a day’s break, then the ladies’;s occasion can be held.
Golf is about to be performed at Riviera Nation Membership, which is internet hosting the US Girls’s Open for the primary time in 2026.
It’s unclear what number of groups would compete within the blended occasion and the qualification course of, however opens the door for the Lees, who each competed on the Paris Video games, as a duo.
Min Woo broke by way of for his first PGa Tour win in Houston earlier than heading to the Masters, whereas older sister Minjee is a two-time main champion.
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