ON THE SIDELINES : Golf Group to Seek Role in Olympics
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LONDON — An international golf association has been formed to seek a place for the sport in the Olympics for the first time since 1904, officials said today.
An application was made in February to include golf as a demonstration sport at the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain, but Olympic rules stipulate a sport must have an international governing body.
Because golf has several professional and amateur organizations but none that could speak for the entire sport, the World Golf Assn. was created. It has 30 member nations.
“For more than seven years I have been fighting for the recognition of golf as an Olympic sport,” WGA President Claude-Roger Cartier of France said. “I hope that through the World Golf Association this moment has come.”
Golf was contested in the 1900 Olympics in Paris and the 1904 Games in St. Louis.
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