Rivals at the LPGA International Crown see this week’s global team matches as a sneak peek at the fight for gold in golf’s 2016 Olympic return in Rio de Janeiro.
“This is definitely the best preview we have ever had of the Olympics,” world number one Stacy Lewis said. “I know we got a long way to go before Rio, but this is certainly a really good preview to see what we’re going to have in Rio.”
“It’s a bit surreal. To think that you could be a part of the opening ceremonies and the closing ceremonies, those kind of things that you see on TV, just to be a part of that and to stay with all the other athletes, it’s hard to really even imagine it, because obviously we never have been there,” she said.