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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) The Olympic golf test event is under way in Rio de Janeiro, although only low-ranking Brazilian players are taking part.
Nine Brazilians - five men and four women - are playing the course after the PGA Tour was unable to persuade any of the world's top players to participate. Alexandre Rocha, the top-ranked men's player at No. 588, teed off the stroke-play exhibition match on Tuesday morning.
Golf is making a return to the Olympics after 112 years, but the delivery of the course in Rio has been dogged by delays involving environmental lawsuits and land ownership disputes.
Designed by the American golf architect Gil Hanse, the course was eventually handed over to organizers in November.
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