The Tokyo Olympics golf tournament begins Thursday with a field of 60 men teeing off at Kasumigaseki Country Club near Saitama
Despite the Covid-enforced late withdrawals of the last two US Open champions, Bryson DeChambeau, and world number one Jon Rahm, the line-up remains studded with major winners who will battle over four rounds to succeed 2016 gold medallist Justin Rose.The newly crowned “Champion Golfer of the Year” at the British Open has shown time and again in his short career that he has the game and the temperament to handle pressure on the biggest stages in golf.
He will have the advantage of playing on a course he knows as well as any. As an amateur, he played and won at Kasumigaseki Country Club in the annual Japan Junior Championship.He also took the first of his two Asia-Pacific Amateur Championships there, which led to his maiden appearance in the Masters at Augusta National in 2011 where he claimed the Silver Cup for leading amateur, finishing tied 27th.“Go there and win a gold medal,” he said. “That’s my goal and I’ll do my best to accomplish it.
He enjoys playing in Asia, coming third in the Zozo Championship in Japan behind Tiger Woods and winning the WGC-HSBC Champions a week later in China on his last visit to the continent in 2019.He moved back to number one in the world soon after but has struggled since the post-Covid resumption last year, dropping to 15th in the rankings and turning to renowned swing coach Pete Cowen for help.
He became the first player since Rio 2016 bronze medallist Matt Kuchar in 1998 to be low amateur at the US Masters and the US Open in the same season in 2019.
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