The International Golf Federation (IGF) is making a push to make golf an Olympic sport.  Annika Sorenstam, Colin Montgomerie and other tour leaders have been meeting with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week with the goal of making golf an Olympic sport in 2016.  Six other sports (baseball, squash, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and softball) are trying to do the same.

The IOC is listening to proposals from all 7 sports and will select 2 sports in August that will join the 26 current summer Olympic events.  Golf is believed t to be the unofficial front-runner among the 7, due to its wide appeal and international presence.

The IGF’s presentation will call for a 72-hole stroke play tournament for men and women.  There will be a 60 player field and three hole play-offs will determine the medal winners.

Will golf make a return to the Olympics in the 2016 games?  It will if Tiger Woods and other prominent golfers have anything to say about it.

Woods and several other players have recently made a push with the International Olympic Committee to have golf added as an Olympic sport again.  Golf was last recognized as an Olympic sport at the St. Louis games in 1904.

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Anyone want to see golf played in the Olympics?  Or, given the number of foreign born players on the PGA Tour currently, would it be just like any other tour event?  What sort of format would you want to see?