I like to watch the Olympics, and love the so-called 'ideals' of the Olympic creed. Yet they preach that creed and then go ahead and bow to the commercialism of allowing professionals to compete. But, we have crossed that bridge and burned it, and they will never go back to a strict amatuer competitor mode. The cost to build out an Olympic setting to any one country or state or city is so prohibitive that the commercialism of the "dream teams" of major sports that are dominated by professional leagues and such just have to be in there now to recoupe the interests of viewership and selling Coke and Pepsi and the like to put the games on. S0o if you accept that, I am fine with golf as another stage to advance the game, and its basic ideals, which happen to be about the most fair and honorable of all the games played. And, I also think that having it appear in S. America as an Olympic sport adds to the concept of the first time Olympiad there in S.A. Surely, golf has a higher world profile than many other sports that are in the Olympics. I suppose it is a given that Jack's Golden Bear Archies will get the gig of building the olympic course in Brazil, but I think that course really ought to be designed by someone who has been working in S.A. like Randy Thompson or someone that knows the culture there well.