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0:01 | golf Central on YouTube is brought to

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0:05 | from Callaway well we are just 100 days

0:08 | away from the first day of golf

0:10 | competition at the 2024 Summer Olympic

0:13 | Games from Paris and you can see it all

0:15 | right here on the NBC family of networks

0:18 | the men’s golf competition will be

0:20 | August 1st through the 4th and the

0:22 | women’s will be August 7th through the

0:24 | 10th and you can watch both on Golf

0:27 | Channel and peacock so let’s take a look

0:29 | at the current men standings as of right

0:31 | now Zan Shuffle is in position to defend

0:33 | his gold medal in Paris the US will

0:35 | likely be represented by four men this

0:37 | year the Olympic standings are based on

0:39 | the world golf rankings as Scotty

0:41 | Sheffer pretty much a guarantee to be in

0:43 | France right now Windam Clark Shuffle

0:45 | and Patrick KL also in the top four but

0:48 | plenty of time for players like Max

0:49 | Homer Brian Harmon and Colin morawa to

0:52 | catch them and over on the women’s side

0:54 | the us would get four players if they’re

0:56 | all inside the top 15 of the world

0:58 | rankings you got Nelly CER essentially a

1:01 | lock at this point to qualify as is

1:03 | Lilia Vu but there will be an

1:05 | interesting battle for the last spots

1:07 | looking at this over the next few months

1:09 | currently occupied by Megan K and

1:11 | Allison Lee and earlier today Damon hack

1:13 | talked with Anthony scandin who’s the

1:16 | executive director of the International

1:18 | Golf Federation Anthony it is great to

1:20 | visit with you what’s the excitement now

1:22 | that we’re inside 100 days until Olympic

1:25 | Golf competition

1:26 | begins it’s um nervous excitement Dam

1:29 | and thank thanks so much for having us

1:30 | it’s um I count down the Thursdays until

1:34 | the 1 of um of of of August when the men

1:38 | The Men start te off at 9:00 a.m. we’re

1:41 | 14 Thursdays away so that’s why there’s

1:44 | excitement and a little bit of

1:45 | nervousness as to how soon it is the

1:48 | nerves I can understand the logistics of

1:49 | running the men’s and women’s

1:51 | competition must be immense what do the

1:53 | final preparations look like between now

1:56 | and then lots of meetings uh I just we

1:59 | just came off a conference call with the

2:01 | organizing committee to to get down to

2:03 | the final details you know dotting the

2:05 | eyes Crossing the te’s the the stuff

2:07 | that you need to do to to make a good

2:09 | game’s great so um it’s it’s that that F

2:13 | minute detail that we’re doing and and

2:15 | right now our agronomist is is at the

2:19 | the golf course working with their team

2:21 | and getting down to the the little

2:23 | details of of preparation for the golf

2:25 | course um so a lot of small things are

2:29 | adding up to big things really between

2:31 | now and games time I imagine those

2:33 | details are are huge why is Olympic Golf

2:35 | then so important for bringing maybe a

2:37 | new fan base new people to the

2:41 | sport well there’s lots of them uh we

2:44 | our broadcast for the games that will

2:47 | over a quarter of a billion um viewers

2:51 | both in Tokyo and in Rio and most of

2:53 | those viewers are new people to our

2:55 | sport that about 60% normally don’t

2:58 | watch golf it’s not and so

3:00 | on top of that it’s a it’s a younger

3:02 | more gender neutral equal numbers of men

3:05 | and women watching the sport and as I

3:07 | said among much younger audience for us

3:09 | and so we’re using this as an

3:11 | opportunity for our membership to to

3:14 | after you know within that 3 week

3:15 | four-week Halo period after the games to

3:18 | capitalize on that opportunity to get

3:20 | people into their golf clubs learning

3:22 | how to play the sport and and trying to

3:24 | convert you know some of these newer

3:26 | fans interested fans into participants

3:28 | and obviously long term fans to watch

3:31 | your broadcast and other broadcasts of

3:33 | of our athletes as they perform in in

3:36 | the tours post post the Paris Olympics

3:39 | well speaking of golf clubs the golf

3:40 | National has hosted big time events

3:43 | before in particular the 2018 Ryder Cup

3:45 | how’s it setting up for the Olympics and

3:47 | what will the TV viewing experience be

3:49 | like for fans around the world

3:52 | watching well I don’t think it’s going

3:54 | to be as rough and P penal as the rough

3:56 | as penal as it was for for 2018 there

3:59 | was a bit of maybe you could say a bit

4:01 | of a home team Advantage for setup there

4:03 | what we’re trying to do is is show and

4:06 | showcase our players to to to highlight

4:09 | the skill sets that they have um to get

4:12 | as many birdies and Eagles Etc as

4:14 | possible and and and also to show as

4:18 | we’ve done in both Rio and Tokyo

4:20 | showcase the women’s game to show how

4:23 | close they are to to the men in terms of

4:25 | their scoring and and their

4:26 | professionalism and and their skill sets

4:29 | uh with a two tees um since um the um

4:33 | the rer cup we have a tea now a new tea

4:36 | on the ninth green and a new te on the

4:38 | 17th team which will will um provide a

4:42 | great opportunity for the women to to

4:44 | show off their skills so um they’ll see

4:47 | exciting golf they’ll see a golf course

4:50 | in in in immac condition uh that that

4:53 | enables our our players to to to perform

4:57 | at their highest level and on top of

4:59 | that I think

5:00 | the beauty of the course will will

5:02 | attract people to our sport I think it’s

5:04 | a you know that the time you spend

5:06 | playing golf and the Solitude and and

5:08 | the friendships you gain from that time

5:09 | you spend at the golf course I think

5:11 | will also come out to the viewers well

5:14 | Anthony speaking of the players there’s

5:16 | some close races coming down the stretch

5:17 | for qualifying for the games there

5:19 | always are how important is it for the

5:21 | igf to have a wide array of

5:23 | nationalities represented in

5:26 | Paris yeah it’s very important for two

5:29 | things one one one is obvious the more

5:32 | nationalities or national Olympic

5:34 | committees that are participating the

5:35 | more opportunity we have for our game to

5:37 | be be viewed one of the unique things of

5:40 | the Olympic Games is you know as I said

5:42 | earlier the audience that that’s

5:44 | attracted to watching our our our

5:46 | broadcasts is a different one to week in

5:48 | week out so what we try to do is balance

5:51 | both the strength of the field with the

5:53 | number of national Olympic committees or

5:55 | national federations that are

5:56 | participating and we do that using the

5:59 | world golf rankings and and Li and

6:01 | nuancing it we only have um 60 athletes

6:04 | on the men’s and the women’s side that

6:06 | are participating in these events of of

6:08 | those 60 we limit the the number within

6:12 | the top 15 to four countries so four

6:14 | nationalities of the top players within

6:17 | the 15 then outside that it’s two

6:20 | nationalities um maximum per country um

6:24 | with up until we fill the the 60

6:26 | athletes or participants um so we

6:29 | average out around 32 to 34 countries

6:33 | both in the men’s and the women’s uh and

6:35 | then some of those have two athletes

6:37 | others don’t so around 40 OD 40 40 to 42

6:41 | countries will be represented we think

6:44 | um in Paris once we come to the final

6:47 | entries so it’s a good diversity when

6:49 | you consider um the number of athletes

6:52 | that we have and that gives us obviously

6:55 | that that wide breath of audience that

6:56 | we’re seeking well you had two

6:58 | impressive gold medalist in the last

7:00 | playing in Tokyo how have Xander and

7:02 | Nelly kind of helped metaphorically

7:04 | carry the torch for Olympic

7:07 | Golf I just by their example every day

7:10 | um they’ve been fantastic ambassadors

7:12 | for for the Olympic movement and for

7:14 | golf Nelly right now is is equaling

7:16 | records and um so her play is

7:18 | exceptional her her conduct on on the

7:20 | field of play on the golf course is

7:22 | exceptional and outside that so both and

7:25 | similarly with Xander Xander is the

7:27 | number two ranked American at the moment

7:29 | he’s playing

7:30 | very well and I saw a fantastic

7:33 | interview that that on Golf Channel that

7:35 | you guys did with him during the Masters

7:37 | where he’s just taking every round as it

7:39 | come or every shot as it comes and and

7:41 | hoping by the end of that to to qualify

7:43 | back in in in June for for the Olympic

7:46 | Games and it’ be F fantastic if we had

7:49 | both of our defending gold medalists

7:51 | there that was a great interview live

7:53 | from the Masters when the games comes to

7:55 | Los Angeles in 2028 Anthony that’s my

7:58 | hometown hearing a lot about uh

8:00 | potential for a mixed team event how

8:02 | close is that to

8:04 | happening well you’re right um yeah we

8:07 | went to the players to to seek their

8:09 | their thoughts on this and there was

8:10 | great enthusiasm and support for it uh

8:13 | anything for an extra gold medal and in

8:15 | addition to the the two individuals we

8:17 | have for the 72 whole stroke play so we’

8:20 | put that suggestion to the I we’ve got

8:23 | fantastic support from the organizing

8:25 | Committee of La uh for this bid and we

8:28 | we well the IC will make up a decision

8:31 | on the the total event schedule or the

8:34 | the number of um competitions that will

8:36 | be held during the games towards the

8:38 | beginning of next year so we’re hoping

8:41 | um that momentum will build from that

8:43 | incitement from the players and also

8:45 | from the organizing committee for the IC

8:47 | to take on board um adding a mixed team

8:50 | event to the um to our program and we’re

8:53 | really hopeful of that

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