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Brazil’s golf history would fit on back of a scorecard (The Associated Press)

Posted: August 9, 2016 at 5:31 am   /   by   /   comments (0)

A burrowing owl rests in a sand bunker on the ninth hole of the Olympic golf course during a practice round for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

The history of golf in Brazil would fit on the back of a scorecard. It begins at the turn of the 20th century, when English and Scottish railway engineers convinced some Benedictine monks to set aside a parcel of land for the game on a monastery near Sao Paulo. ”What’s happening here, we hope, will be like what happened in the states 60 years ago,” said Nico Barcellos, who played a dozen years on Latin America’s modest pro golf circuit and Brazil’s Olympic golf team leader, as well as the head of the national federation.



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