Lydia Ko, golf’s only two-time Olympic medalist, brings to Le Golf National the perspective of someone whose career has grown as she embarks on her third Olympic appearance, but also the perspective of someone who’s seen the Olympics grow since its return to the program in 2016. That sense of where this event now resides most definitely includes what she saw happen yesterday with Scottie Scheffler’s back-nine 29 to grab gold in the men’s competition.
“I think [Olympic golf] obviously has grown a lot, and with anything, I think there always is going to be that time period where it kind of gets incorporated smoothly,” said Ko, who won the silver in Rio as a 19-year-old and bronze in Tokyo at 24. “I think it’s quite hard because both in Rio and Tokyo we had external factors that were affecting maybe players’ choices in attending the Games even though they qualified.
