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Golf · Level 10: Professional · Sub-level 10.4

Olympic Golf

4 tests · 40 facts · updated 13 October 2026 · markdown

Golf at the Olympics: its early history and return, the format, the medallists, and the venues.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Golf's Olympic historyTake a test

  1. Then not for 112 years.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  2. Men's and women's events were held.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  3. The first American woman to win an Olympic event.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  4. At Glen Echo Country Club.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  5. He was 46 at the time.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  6. After a vote by the IOC in 2009.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  7. Only one player was left entered for 1908.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  8. 1900, 1904, 2016 and 2021.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  9. The vote came in 2009.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  10. Designed by Gil Hanse.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · applied

Test 2The formatTake a test

  1. Separate men's and women's events.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  2. Smaller than a normal tour field.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  3. Based on the world rankings.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  4. Otherwise two at most.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  5. They play for medals.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  6. Recognised by the IOC.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  7. Each event was for individuals.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  8. Ties for a medal go to a play-off.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · applied

  9. Four is the most any country can have.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · applied

  10. Tokyo's men's bronze needed a seven-player play-off.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · applied

Test 3The medallistsTake a test

  1. England's first Olympic golf champion.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  2. Two shots behind Rose.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  3. The Games were played in 2021.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  4. One shot clear.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  5. With a final round of 62.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  6. C.T. Pan of Chinese Taipei won it.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  7. In Rio in 2016, by five shots.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  8. Rio, Tokyo and Paris.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · applied

  9. Rio, Tokyo and Paris.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  10. A full set over Rio, Tokyo and Paris.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · applied

Test 4Venues and legacyTake a test

  1. North-west of Tokyo.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  2. Built on old sand-mining land.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  3. In the west of the city.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  4. They kept the name Tokyo 2020.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  5. Home of the PGA Tour's Genesis Invitational.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  6. Olympic status can unlock government funding.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  7. At its session in Copenhagen.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  8. 2016, 2021, 2024 and 2028.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  9. Rio's course held a test event before the Games.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · recall

  10. The Ryder Cup in 2018 and the Olympics in 2024.

    Source: International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC) · applied

Sources

Major championship, tour, team competition and Olympic records (Augusta National, USGA, PGA of America, The R&A, PGA Tour, DP World Tour, LPGA, LET, IGF, IOC), the world rankings and the World Golf Hall of Fame; only settled facts used as keys; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • International Golf Federation and Olympic results (IOC)40