Golf For The Olympics?
Padraig Harrington, Colin Montgomerie and Tiger Woods are among 18 players to have given their support for golf to be included as an Olympic sport.
The players have all sent letters of support to International Olympic Committee members from their countries.
The campaign is being organised by the International Golf Federation, who hope to get the sport included in 2016.
Golf is one of seven sports being considered for inclusion in the Olympics. The others are baseball, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens, softball and squash.
The IOC can only add a maximum of two from that list, and are due to make their decision in August. As well as the letters, the players also included a 32-page dossier on why golf should be included in the Games, containing information on how many people play the sport around the world.
Jack Nicklaus and Annika Sorenstam, global ambassadors for the campaign, have sent the same documents to IOC representatives from 75 other countries.
Golf last was an Olympic sport in 1904 in St Louis when the United States and Canada were the only countries competing.
What do you think? Should golf be added to the sports played at the Olympics? Or do you think that the annual golf calendar is busy enough without having to worry about the Olympics too? Let us know by leaving your thoughts below.
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No Olympics for golf,golf is an honest clean game that we do not want tainted by the olypics or by the people who run them no.