Olympics - Golf Update: A Look at the New Golf Course

Developing the 2016 Olympics Golf Course may be the biggest challenge of American Gill Hanse's career. Nonetheless, after overcoming great odds on 9 March, nine Brazilian golfers took part in the Aquece Rio Golf Challenge in the Barra di Tijuca area of Rio de Janeiro to inaugurate the new par 71, 6934 yard course that will host the first Olympic golf competition in 112 years. The Olympic golf course has been built at Reserva de Marapendi in Barra da Tijuca, the district that will contain the largest number of Rio 2016 Olympic Games venues. It will be a unique Olympic Games venue, located approximately nine kilometres from the Athletes’ Village and seven kilometres from the Main Press Centre (MPC) and the International Broadcast Centre (IBC), South of Avenida das Americas and North of Lagoa de Marapendi. After the 2016 Olympic Games, the course will be used as a public facility with the chief purpose of promoting golf in Brazil and the globe, representing one of the most important Olympic Games legacies for sport development in the country. Share your thoughts about the Gill Hanse design and development with the Pro Golf Tour: http://progolftournaments.blogspot.com/