In golf, Juan Sebastián Muoz will compete for a medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – Olympic Cycle – Sports.
S Muñoz Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
The last five years have been crucial to Juan Sebastian Muoz’s development and his ability to carve out a niche for himself on the PGA Tour.
Since his unexpected win at the Colombia Championship on the web.com Tour (formerly Korn Ferry Tour), the Bogotá native has risen to the ranks of one of the world’s top 100 golfers.
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Tokya 2020 was accessible to him because of his high world rating (he is currently in box 82 and was ranked 55). He makes history as the first man from Colombia to play in the Olympic men’s golf tournament.
Remember that four years ago, in 2016, Camilo Villegas could have played in Rio, but he opted out in order to protect his PGA Tour status. He won’t be in Tokyo for the same reason. Villegas can’t be replaced by another Colombian because the quotas are symbolic rather than numerical.
Dates for the First two Stages have been Made Public by the Organisation.
On the field with Muoz will be the Swede Henrik Norlander and the Dane Joachim Hansen. It will begin at 7:52 a.m. on Thursday, Japan time (or 5:52 p.m. on Wednesday, Colombia time) with the first round. The second one was at 9:47 AM on Friday (which was 7:47 PM Thursday Colombian time).
The Kasumigaseki Country Club in Saitama, home to one of Japan’s oldest courses (it opened in 1929), will host the tournament. It’s a field more akin to South American games than the links you just finished playing. Muoz in the Wimbledon finals.
The Bogota native used Colombia’s Independence Day to display the luggage he will be carrying to Tokyo and to deliver a message: “I feel very pleased to be able to represent my nation in Tokyo. He wished us a “Happy 20th of July!”
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However, the Rivalry is Fierce;
The locals bet heavily on Hideki Matsuyama to become the first Japanese player to win the Augusta Masters. American Collin Morikawa, fresh off his victory at the British Open, is also competing.
However, world number one and US Open champion, Spaniard Jon Rahm, and last year’s tournament winner and world number six, American Bryson DeChambeau, both had to withdraw from the competition due to covid-19.
