Olympia 2021: Golf: Gold on Schaufele - Kieffer and Long in midfield
The US Golf Professional Xander Schaufele has won gold at Olympics in Tokyo Gold. The 27-year-old Californian with German passport sat down after four rounds on the PAR-71 square in the Kasumigaseki Country Club with 266 strokes and thus brought the first gold for the golf nation since the team triumph in 1904 in St. Louis.
Silver secured with an outstanding 61er final round and a total of 267 beats of South Africa Born Slovake Rory Sabbatini. In a seven-sting around Bronze sat down the Taiwanese C.T. Pan through, in the crucial last duel on the 4th Extra-Hole, British Open Champion Collin Morikawa (USA) had looked. Previously, the four-time major winner Rory Mcilroy (Northern Ireland) belonged to the beaten.
Cheng-TSung Pan had stopped by a creative idea. The 29-year-old employed his wife Michelle Lin as Caddie to deal with the "No-Family" rule in the audience-free games in Tokyo. "She wanted to be with me. The most important thing is that we have a great balance together," Pan said.
German starters in midfield
Not over the midfield came the two German starters. After a final 67er round on Sunday, Hurly Long (St. Leon-Red) took the 35th place with 277 beats. Three strokes More needed the Düsseldorf Maximilian Kiefer, who needed 71 strokes on his final round and landed at position 45.
Xander Schaufele is considered a true "world funeral". His mother has Taiwanese-Japanese roots, his father is half French and half German. "Thanks to him, I have the German passport," scoop, which has been a member of the German Association of Pga of Germany for three years. Thus, Schauffele could have also been for Germany on gold hunting, a possibility he may have used if he had not come to the US bid.
The men's field was affected by cancellations. The world-ranking and reigning US open winner Jon Rahm (Spain) as well as the former major winner Bryson Dechambeau (USA) were positively tested before their trip to Tokyo at the compulsory PCR tests. Germany's Topgolfer Martin Kaymer (Mettmann) had renounced his second participation in Rio 2016 because of the "complicated circumstances" in Japan.
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In the women's tournament, which begins on 4 August, British Open winner Sophia Popov (St. Leon-Red) and Caroline Masson (Gladbeck) for Germany play.
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