Golf, mixed doubles at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics

For an increasingly inclusive sport and even more engaging golf. It is now official: a mixed team event will be added to the traditional men’s and women’s individual golf competitions at the Los Angeles Games 2028. It will be played over the distance of 36 holes, 18 foursomes (in the first round) and as many fourballs (in the second and final rounds).

Following the decisions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Council, confirmation from the International Golf Federation (IGF) has arrived. A maximum of one team per nation will participate in the Mixed-Team Event, each consisting of a pro and a proette already qualified for individual competitions.

Already in 1904, a team tournament was organized at the St. Louis Olympics. After more than a century, in 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, golf then returned to the Games. Now, after the successes of the Rio, Tokyo and Paris Olympics, an exciting new event.

That will be staged after the men’s individual competition and before the women’s. And Italy, in this tournament, has already shown that it has a knack for it given the bronze in the team event won in 2014, at the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, by Renato Paratore (gold medalist, by the way, in the individual) and Virginia Elena Carta.