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Three Area Writers Discuss the Details of How It Might All Unfold If Chicago Were to Be Awarded the 2016 Games and Golf Is Added As an Olympic Sport A Roundtable Discussion Three area writers discuss the details of how it might all unfold if Chicago were to be awarded the 2016 games and golf is added as an Olympic sport. TIM CRONIN n October 2009, Covers golf for the SouthtownStar. He is the author of five Chicagoans will know books, including the forthcoming history of Beverly Country Club. He's covered golf, auto racing and the Blackhawks for the result of the parts of four decades. effort to land the I2016 Summer Olympics. At that time, the decision will be ED SHERMAN announced regarding the possible addition of Covered golf for the Chicago Tribune for more than a decade. Also wrote a media column for 10 years; other major golf to the roster of Olympic sports. In this issue, assignments previously included national college football and the White Sox. Chicago District Golfer presents the second of its discussions regarding golf as a sport in the potential 2016 Chicago Olympics. LEN ZIEHM Clockwide, from upper left: Tiger Woods; Rafael Has covered golf for the Chicago Sun-Times for Nadel of Spain, the gold medal winner in men’s 38 years. Other major beats have included the Chicago tennis at the 2008 Olympics; and the clubhouse at Blackhawks (since 2001), soccer and Northwestern Medinah Country Club. Page 30: Michael Phelps University athletics. and Lorena Ochoa. Photos by Getty Images. 28 WWW.CDGA.ORG CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLFER: Will Chicago be that it’d be a fifth major, but that just for men’s and women’s; you couldn’t excited about the prospects of an Olympic golf hasn’t happened. It’s a half-size set up for men one week and women competition? After all, is there anything new about tournament with only 64 players. the next. You wouldn’t want a going to see Vijay Singh, Stuart Appleby or Lorena ED: I never heard about tennis in tournament one week and have it all Ochoa? Beijing and I know Nadal and some trampled down, then bring in whoever TIM: I think Chicago will be excited if it big names were playing. I know from is next. gets the Olympics. If you look back to being at the Sydney Games, I’d walk ED: We might be looking at men’s at Los Angeles, even soccer sold out in by the tennis center and it’d be pretty one place and women’s at another, the Olympics and back in 1984 people empty, and we all know with the like a Glen Club, where it isn’t as long, weren’t that into soccer. Chicago is a Australian Open, it’s a big sport down or a top country club where you don’t great golf town, always has been, and I there. I don’t understand why golf need 7,500 yards. I think the women think it will do very well. Folks will be would want to go down this road, would have a lot more alternatives excited about the Olympics proper, other than trying to get funding for because they don’t need as much real but can golf carve out a niche within emerging countries’ golf programs, but estate. that two-week time period for people there are probably other ways to do TIM: That’s why I think Medinah or in Chicago, around the nation and that. Olympia Fields would work. You world? could play on No. 1 and No. 3 on LEN: I think there’s a real danger with CDG: If Chicago were to get the Olympics and golf Medinah or North and South at golf in the Olympics getting lost in the were to be added to the roster of sports, what Olympia, but where do you put all the shuffle with all the other events. I venues would be considered? think the key to whether it succeeds TIM: Since it’s going to will be the format they choose for the be a big event, the two “If Tiger were to play, it’d generate competition. It would be good if they places that come to pattern it like an NCAA tournament, mind are Olympia some interest, but again, it’d be a where you have both an individual Fields and Medinah. and a team (nation) champion. It’s One thing to consider secondary sport, and using tennis more important for golf to be in the is that you know Olympics than it be held in Chicago. they’d be able to sell as the model, you wonder why golf Golf needs to be in the Olympics for corporate tents for the the sake of the sport. It will be a tough Olympics no matter would want to go through this sell, it won’t be the only show in where they are, which town—it never has been—and with the works well in golf. exercise and be overshadowed.” Olympics it will be very much a sec- Those would sell out ondary deal. and you’d have no one —ED SHERMAN ED: The example I would use is, can on the course watching you name the gold medal winners in and everyone in the tennis? I think tennis definitely gets tents watching other Olympic events. I infrastructure? At Medinah you could lost in the Olympics and I don’t know know Olympia Fields is interested; it put it on No. 2. why golf would want to do that. When has had fundraisers in support of the ED: I don’t think it’s as big as the U.S. I was at the Sydney Olympics (2000), 2016 bid. The name even fits in— Open. no one paid much attention to tennis, Olympia Fields—they were named that TIM: It’s the first time since 1904, so we even with the Williams sisters playing. because Amos Alonzo Stagg was the don’t know. In Beijing, (Rafael) Nadal was playing first president and wanted to have a and you never saw a word about that. place where you could have the CDG: If golf in the 2016 Chicago Games does In swimming and track, the gold amateur ideals of athletics . and just materialize, what kind of changes would that medal is the standard, it’s the No.1 happen to play golf. create? You wouldn’t want to play that year’s BMW thing. In tennis, it’s winning a Grand LEN: I’d like to toss Cog Hill in there. I Championship in Chicago, would you? Slam event. In golf, it’s winning one of think it’d be good if they had the TIM: They’d have seven years to figure the majors. I think when you know men’s and women’s competitions at out their schedules. So they’d be able this isn’t the ultimate, I think it’d take different venues to spread it out a bit, to know that they need to move our away from golf being marquee in the but I don’t think it matters where you regular tour event out of town or to a Olympics. have it. different time of year. And it really TIM: Some people thought when tennis ED: I think that brings up an excellent depends when the Olympics are. Are entered the games in Seoul in 1988, question. You would need two courses they in July? Do you play them in the NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2008 29 A Roundtable Discussion dog days of August? The television Olympics than another PGA event. to highlight the final match in 15 networks would probably have a lot to That’s only four years—a lot of minutes rather than showing four do with that. I’d think you’d want it to championship golf at a private club. hours of golf when you’ve got so be the only event in town. If the PGA TIM: It is but it’d be the first golf in the much else going on. Tour is behind this as they say, they’d Olympics in 112 years, since they had LEN: Yes, I think the Western Amateur want to move everything out of the it in St. Louis, and the prestige of format would be absolutely perfect for way so that the spotlight in Chicago saying, “Here we are and we hosted the Olympics. golf was on the Olympics.” ED: Talking about match play, it’s one thing, the ED: I agree, but I don’t see a way the always a dicey proposition because Olympics. BMW would be here in 2016. you could end up with Henrik LEN: It’s an Stenson against Geoff Ogilvy in the interesting CDG: What kind of format would you like to see in final match when everyone wants concept, but the Olympics? Tiger vs. Phil. I’m not sure it’d TIM: Everyone seems to say that we TIM: For the Olympics, that be necessary. The need to play 72 holes of stroke play might work. Maybe some guy Olympic golf from Thailand gets hot movement would and is now in the be a lot different. I Olympics. That builds can’t picture it being golf internationally, like this year, where which is why all these we’re moving events associations want to because of the Ryder Cup; get golf in. we can’t have a BMW here ED: I like your because we’ll have the Ryder thinking, but I Cup in 2012. I think the believe they’ll Olympics would be so much think it is too different, both different dicey. You just players and scope.
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