Golf is officially recognized as first featuring in the Summer Olympic Games programme in 1900 and 1904, although the 1900 events were not regarded as being part of the games at the time. A golf tournament was to have been held in 1908, but it was cancelled less than two days before it was scheduled to start.^[1] Two golf tournaments were also to have been held in 1920, but were cancelled due to a lack of entries.

At the IOC session in Copenhagen in October 2009, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to reinstate the sport for the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[2][3] The International Golf Federation is the governing body for golf at the Olympic Games. Qualification is based primarily upon the Official World Golf Ranking (men) and Women's World Golf Rankings, with the top 15 of each gender automatically qualifying (with a limit of four per country), and then the highest ranked players from countries that had not yet already qualified two players.^[4][5][6][7]

Sources:^[8]

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	5	3	5	13
2	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
3	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	0	1
5	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	1	2
6	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
9	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		8	8	9	25

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Men

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	3	2	4	9
2	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
3	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
4	Slovakia (SVK)	0	1	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
6	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		5	5	6	16

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Women

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	2	1	1	4
2	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	0	1
3	New Zealand (NZL)	0	1	1	2
4	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
5	China (CHN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		3	3	3	9

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1900

• Men's individual
• Women's individual

1904

• Men's individual
• Men's team

1908

A men's individual tournament was planned for the 1908 London Games, but a dispute amongst representatives of England and Scotland over the format led to British golfers boycotting, leaving 1904 gold medallist George Lyon of Canada as the only remaining entrant.^[9] He was entitled to claim the gold medal but declined.^[9]

1920

Two golf tournaments were planned at the 1920 Antwerp Games, but were cancelled due to a lack of entries.^[10]

2016

• Men's individual
• Women's individual^[11]

2020

• Men's individual
• Women's individual

Since its reintroduction, Olympic golf competitions have consisted of men's and women's individual stroke play. There has been calls for the IGF and the IOC to consider adding a match play tournament, a team tournament, and/or to open up the Olympic tournament to more golfers, possibly by using a different qualifying system than the World Golf Ranking.^[12]

22 golfers competed in 1900. The 1904 tournament featured 77 golfers. Albert Lambert was the only golfer who competed both times; a total of 98 different golfers competed throughout the brief history of Olympic golf before it was brought back in 2016.^{[citation needed]}

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Nation	96	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Years
Argentina (ARG)																												2	1	2
Australia (AUS)																												4	4	2
Austria (AUT)																												2	3	2
Bangladesh (BAN)																												1		1
Belgium (BEL)																												3	3	2
Brazil (BRA)																												3		1
Canada (CAN)			3																									4	4	3
Chile (CHI)																												1	2	2
China (CHN)																												4	4	2
Chinese Taipei (TPE)																												4	3	2
Colombia (COL)																												1	2	2
Czech Republic (CZE)																												1	2	2
Denmark (DEN)																												4	4	2
Ecuador (ECU)																													1	1
Finland (FIN)																												4	4	2
France (FRA)		9																										4	4	3
Germany (GER)																												4	4	2
Great Britain (GBR)		4																										4	4	3
Greece (GRE)		1																												1
Hong Kong (HKG)																												1	1	2
India (IND)																												3	4	2
Ireland (IRL)																												4	4	2
Israel (ISR)																												1		1
Italy (ITA)																												4	4	2
Japan (JPN)																												4	4	2
Malaysia (MAL)																												4	2	2
Mexico (MEX)																												3	4	2
Morocco (MAR)																												1	1	2
Netherlands (NED)																												1	1	2
New Zealand (NZL)																												3	2	2
Norway (NOR)																												3	3	2
Paraguay (PAR)																												2	1	2
Philippines (PHI)																												1	3	2
Poland (POL)																													1	1
Portugal (POR)																												2		1
Puerto Rico (PUR)																													2	1
Russia (RUS)																												1		1
South Africa (RSA)																												4	2	2
South Korea (KOR)																												6	6	2
Slovakia (SVK)																													1	1
Slovenia (SLO)																													1	1
Spain (ESP)																												4	4	2
Sweden (SWE)																												4	4	2
Switzerland (SUI)																												2	2	2
Thailand (THA)																												4	4	2
United States (USA)		8	74																									7	8	4
Venezuela (VEN)																												1	1	2
Zimbabwe (ZIM)																													1	1
Nations		4	2																									41	42	48
Athletes		22	77																									120	120
Year	96	00	04	08	12	20	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20

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• List of Olympic venues in golf