How To Make Olympic Golf Major

Injecting the current stroke play format with an NCAA-inspired team component. Plus, what the 2021 men's and women's teams might have looked like in Tokyo.

Flags on display at the Rio Olympic golf course, 2016 Games (Geoff Shackelford)

This newsletter is built around the majors and the golf calendar’s next biggest thing: the Ryder Cup. But even that team competition, as with this fall’s Solheim Cup, only involves a small portion of the world’s population.

Maybe that’s why so many had hope that Olympic golf …