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 2016’s Rio return exceeded the first two playings in excitement and continued the streak of worthy medalists—though we all know the entire thing nearly ble…