Should "Golf" be an olympic sport?

These days, every sport is in the Olympics. So I say WHY not?

I mean Golf's got the first person that is ever a billionaire. If people enjoy it then there really shouldn't be a reason that it shoudln't be in the Olympics.

Me and my friend were discussing the Olympics last year, and we were talking about how so many random sports are in the Olympics. I mean sooner or later there's going to be an Olympic Sport called, Hide and Seek.

No i dont think it should be an olympic sport because many people wouldnt want to wtch golf because it is a slow and not intense game

It's going to be included in the Rio games in 2016. Whether or not it should be, however, is another story. Golf is a rich man's game and always has been- and it also has its problems where issues of gender and racial equality are concerned. As I write this, Tiger Woods is still the only African American ( he's actually African Asian American, his mother was from Thailand) who is on the PGA tour- and he's had to deal with blatant racism ever since he became the youngest player in history to win the Masters. The rest of the sport, however, is still as LILLY WHITE as the driven snow, which I for one find to be deeply disturbing. Do you remember what happened after that first Masters which Woods won, when Fuzzy Zoeller made the comments that he did about how he didn't want the club to serve "collard greens or fatback pork, or whatever those people eat" in the dining room? That's an example of what I am talking about. There has been more of that, a LOT more, since Woods became a superstar player. Zoeller was forced to withdraw from another tournament the next week because his comments created such an uproar, but the point was made, wasn't it. Then there's the issue of gender discrimination- the Augusta club where the Masters is played, along with several other clubs, STILL do not admit women, either as players or as professional members- and that too is WRONG. Putting golf in the Olympics will not change any of this- in fact, because the Olympics are going to be in Rio, it may actually make things worse. Rio, and indeed all of Brazil, is a place where women routinely get treated as second class citizens at best. Domestic abuse runs rampant there, because of laws which basically ignore the right of women to be free from abusive relationships and treatment by their male counterparts. Wife beating is actually LEGAL in some parts of Brazil, in fact, which is just heartbreaking. Olympic golf is going to be played in two tournaments- one for men and one for women, instead of allowing members of both genders to compete equally with one another, as they do in the equestrian sports. Gender has NOTHING to do with athletic ability when it comes to a sport like golf- in fact, it's irrelevant. I find it appalling that the IOC seems to be unable to grasp this.

Apart from this, however, there is another issue. Adding golf to the Olympics is going to continue to erode the line between amateurism and professionalism even further than it already has been. Of course Tiger Woods wants to play for an Olympic medal- who wouldn't? But he really has no business being in the games AT ALL, because he's a PROFESSIONAL. Getting paid to compete in a sport makes a person a professional, no matter WHAT sport one is talking about. The same thing can be said of the IOC's INSANE votes to allow basketball players from the NBA and hockey players from the NHL into the games. The 1980 "Miracle on Ice" hockey team was made up of young college kids- true amateurs, NOT people who were multi millionaires from years of playing professional hockey. After the IOC voted to essentially eliminate the line between amateur and professional, it took something away from the Olympics- something that will never return. That vote made the so called "dream teams" of the 80's and 90's in basketball possible- but to me, what happened with those teams was a NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT, NOT SPORT. The sole purpose of these so called "teams" was to CRUSH the heart and spirit of every other team in the tournament- and to showcase American arrogance and power. The Olympic movement isn't supposed to be about one upmanship, or at least it wasn't the last time I checked. Allowing people like LeBron James to play for an Olympic medal, when EVERYONE KNOWS he gets paid to play basketball professionally, was simply WRONG. This is a guy who makes his living playing ball, and all the younger athletes who might otherwise have a shot at a legitimate Olympic medal get SHUT OUT because of the decision to have someone like him play. I think the US should be ashamed of itself where this sport is concerned, and the same thing applies to golf. We can and should do better than we have. What's it going to take to get the PGA and the LPGA to merge and become one entity? When is the Augusta club ever going to get over itself and get out of the Dark Ages, and start admitting women and treating them like the professionals they are? That club has already faced several lawsuits because of its stupid gender discrimination policies- you'd think they'd learn something from that- but they never seem to.

These are just my thoughts.

No but Rugby definitely belongs in the olympics

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your question is right ya polo is in the olympic sport

no it is too boring. It takes a few days for a game to be complete.

Not before baseball and fast-pitch softball.

Nooooooo, it's for retired people.