LA 2028 to feature Olympic mixed-team golf event

A mixed-team play arena will beryllium held astatine nan Olympic Games successful Los Angeles pursuing support by nan International Olympic Committee executive board.

Organisers person said it will contested arsenic 36-hole title crossed 2 18-hole rounds - foursomes and fourball - pinch a maximum of 1 squad per country.

Teams will beryllium comprised of 1 antheral and 1 female jock from nan individual men's and women's competitions being held astatine nan Games.

The group arena will return spot successful betwixt nan men's and nan women's competitions astatine nan Riviera Country Club.

Golf returned to nan Olympics astatine Rio 2016 aft an absence of complete a century, and LA 2028 will spot nan first squad title since St Louis Games of 1904.

International Golf Federation executive head Antony Scanlon said: "We're excited to bring moreover much attraction to our athletics done this further format.

"The athletes were very enthusiastic astir their desire to play pinch their compatriots, and we look guardant to watching them compete together successful Los Angeles."

TeamGB's Justin Rose won gold successful nan men's individual arena successful Rio conscionable nether a decade agone while Tommy Fleetwood picked up nan metallic medal astatine Paris 2024.

Golf is 1 of six sports - joining archery, athletics (4x100m mixed relay), gymnastics, rowing coastal formation sprint and array tennis - to adhd a mixed-gender title for LA 2028.