Olympics Should Use Old World Cup Qualifying Format Instead of World Rankings

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Published: October 25, 2013

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The World Cup will be played in a few weeks at Royal Melbourne in Australia. With golf going into the 2016 Olympics, maybe Olympic officials need to take a look at the history of the World Cup and make some revisions in format and selection process.

After a number of changes, the Olympics will have 72-holes, stroke play, without a team competition. The way they have chosen to select participants assures that it will be more like a limited field golf event, like a WGC, but with a weaker field. The WGC events seldom go lower than top 70, plus some former teams members from Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup. The Olympics would need to go down to No. 214 if competitors were chosen today.

The current selection method guarantees the competition will have a decent showing of top names, which may be what is most important to the Olympic Committee. But does it really serve the spirit of the Olympics? What the committee should do is to use the old World Cup qualifying format to allow more countries to participate.

The old World Cup selection process included regional qualifiers. That meant every country, no matter how large or small, could field a team and send it to their regional event. Regional qualifiers allowed each country that wanted a World Cup team to have one. Whether they made it to the finals or not that time, it still allowed a country to become like the Jamaican Bobsled Team only for golf.  

Isn't that more compelling? Could two guys from Iceland end up in the Olympic golf finals? How about Vanuatu? Saudi Arabia? Think they'd have a sand game? Do the Russians even know how to play golf? How excited are they going to be to be left out?

In the old World Cup qualifiers, there were sure to be some guys who did well to post 120 for 18 holes. World Cup organizers realized there was no sense in clogging up the finals with that kind of scoring. But it doesn't mean that four years down the road that same in...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Golf

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