A mixed-team golf occasion will debut on the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics with sides that includes one feminine and one male participant.
The combined competitors – which can happen between the boys’s and girls’s particular person tournaments – will probably be a 36-hole occasion cut up throughout two 18-hole rounds.
There’s a most of 1 crew per nation.
Males’s and girls’s particular person tournaments returned to the Olympic schedule in 2016 with Justin Rose, Scottie Scheffler, Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko amongst these to win gold since.
Scottie Scheffler received males’s golf gold on the 2024 Paris Olympics
Worldwide Golf Federation director Antony Scanlon mentioned: “Golf was extremely profitable at Paris 2024 and as we proceed constructing on the momentum from Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, we’re excited to convey much more consideration to our sport via this extra format.
“The athletes were very enthusiastic about their desire to play with their compatriots, and we look forward to watching them compete together in Los Angeles.”
Golf was a part of the 1900 Paris Video games after which the 1904 Olympics in St Louis earlier than dropping off the programme.
