Major(s) News & Notes, August 8th, 2024

Olympic golf does a nice job capturing the state of the men's game. Plus, Europe updates its Ryder Cup qualifying, Pebble's sixth reopens for play, Quotable, This, That and Reads.

• Days to the AIG Women’s Open in St Andrews: 14
  

Last week’s Olympic competition offered a summary of about everything beautiful and needing improvement in the modern men’s game. The third edition since…