The women's individual

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event at the

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took place from 4 to 7 August 2021 at the

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. 60 golfers from 35 nations competed.

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of the United States took gold,

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of Japan and

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of New Zealand tied for second with Inami taking the silver in a sudden-death playoff.

Background

The first Olympic golf tournaments took place at the second modern Games in Paris 1900. Men's and women's events were held. Golf was featured again at the next Games, St. Louis 1904 with men's events (an individual tournament as well as a team event). The 1908 Games in London were also supposed to have a golf competition, but a dispute led to a boycott by all of the host nation's golfers, leaving only a single international competitor and resulting in the cancellation of the event. Golf would disappear from the Olympic programme from then until returning in 2016.

Qualification

Each nation can qualify from one to four golfers based on the World Rankings of 28 June 2021. The top 60 golfers, subject to limits per nation and guarantees for the host and continental representation, are selected. A nation can have three or four golfers if they are all in the top 15 of the rankings; otherwise, each nation is limited to two golfers. One spot is guaranteed for the host nation and five spots are guaranteed to ensure that each Olympic continent has at least one representative.

Competition format

Following the format used when golf was returned to the Olympic programme in 2016, the tournament is a four-round

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tournament, with the lowest score over the total 72 holes winning.

Schedule

As with most major stroke play tournaments, the event is held over four days (Wednesday through Saturday) with each golfer playing one round (18 holes) per day. All times are

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)

Results

First round

''Wednesday, 4 August 2021''

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of Sweden shot a 5-under-par 66 to take a one-stroke lead over

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of India and world number one

of the United States.

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, 2016 gold medalist, was three shots off the lead at 69. The

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was over , approaching dangerous levels.

Second round

''Thursday, 5 August 2021''

took a four stroke lead after a second round of 62. Korda was 11-under-par after 17 holes but had a double-bogey at the final hole.

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and

Emily Kristine Pedersen Emily Kristine Pedersen (born 7 March 1996) is a Danish professional golfer who plays on the Ladies European Tour and LPGA Tour. She had a successful amateur career winning the 2013 International European Ladies Amateur Championship and the 20 ...

were tied for second place, with first round leader

a further stroke behind, in fifth place.

Third round

''Friday, 6 August 2021''

had a third round of 69 to lead by three strokes from

, who birdied two of the last four holes. Four players, Hannah Green,

and

, were tied for third place, five behind Korda.

Final round

''Saturday, 7 August 2021''

beat

in a sudden-death playoff for the silver medal. The medals for the competition were presented by Odette Assembe-Engoulou,

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; IOC Member, and the medalists' bouquets were presented by

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; IGF President.

References

External links

Tokyo 2020 – Golf – Olympic Schedule & Results
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