By Nick Butler at the Susesi Convention Center in BelekApril 8 - Concern with preparations for Rio 2016, long bubbling beneath the surface, came shooting to the fore today after damning criticism during the General Assembly of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF).

Following on from the criticism last week by International Golf Federation (IGF) President Peter Dawson

, Ryan claimed the golf course situated in the other Olympic Park in Barra urgently needs grass to be

The site of the inaugural Olympic golf competition, pictured last November, is commanding particular

important" Rio 2016 progress meeting delayedMarch 2014: Fear Rio 2016 will not be ready to host test golf

By Gary AndersonApril 4 – The 2014 Emirates Australian Open will take place at Sydney's Australian Golf

schedule and will have a prize fund of AU$1.25 million (£700,000/$1.17 million/€848,000).The Australian Golf

Nicklaus last year.American Nicklaus won three of his six Australian Open titles at the Australian Golf

Club in December ©Getty Images Golf Australia chief executive Stephen Pitt was delighted to announce

There is such a strong historical link to the Emirates Australian Open at The Australian Golf Club,"

We're looking forward to huge week of golf in Sydney where even more history will be made."

By Gary AndersonApril 3 - As Australia aims to top the medal table at this year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, netball and lawn bowls are the only two sports on the programme to get an "above target" rating following a performance report by the Australian Sports Commission (ASC).

Cricket, golf, rugby league, sailing, skiing/snowboarding and surfing were the only other sports to achieve

By Gary AndersonApril 3 – The European Tour has today confirmed that the Irish Open golf tournament will

return to Northern Ireland with Royal County Down Golf Club hosting next year's event, while the 2017

later.The announcement comes after the staging of the 2012 Irish Open at the famous Royal Portrush Golf

has also staged the Senior British Open from 2000 to 2002 and the 2007 Walker Cup.Royal County Down Golf

Club was recently voted fourth on Golf Digest's 2014 list of the World's Top 100 courses.The Royal County

of this story at [email protected] StoriesAugust 2013: Prague rejoins European Golf

Tour after 17 year absenceMay 2013: Denmark to have golf tournament on European Tour from 2014 to 2016

By David OwenApril 3 - UK Sport turned down a request for funding for British women's rugby sevens teams, it has emerged, indicating that the sport was capable of self-funding its preparation for Rio 2016, when rugby will be returning to the Olympics for the first time in 92 years.

concluded there was no need to revisit a decision reached in December 2012 to the effect that football, golf

By Gary AndersonApril 1 - World number one Tiger Woods will miss the first golf major of the year after

because of an Achilles tendon injury he suffered during the 2011 Masters.Chairman of the Augusta National Golf

club's once-cherished reputation for attractive, fan-friendly football.She and the club's co-owner David Golf

By Nick ButlerMarch 26 - Rio 2016 is unlikely to be ready to host a proposed test event on its new golf

course a year before the Olympics, International Golf Federation President Peter Dawson has warned. 

The site of the first Olympic golf competition since St Louis 1904 pictured in Rio de Janeiro last November

Golf, along with rugby sevens in the Olympics and triathlon and canoeing which have been added to the

course releasedApril 2013: Construction of Rio 2016 golf course finally gets green lightApril 2013: 

golf course will "change the sport in Brazil" claim venue managersMarch 2013: Work begins on Rio 2016

golf course but deadlines remain tight

Minister Helen Grant has welcomed the possibility that women will be allowed to join the Royal and Ancient Golf

written to its 2,500-plus  members urging them "now is the time to ask members of the Royal and Ancient Golf

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club is one of the oldest in the world and is considered the most influential

This is welcome news from the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and I urge its members to follow

It would mark a step in the right direction for the sport and I would hope encourage the remaining golf

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews is regarded as the spiritual home of golf ©Getty Images

By Nick Butler at the Rio 2016 Headquarters in Rio de JaneiroMarch 20 - A venue tour focusing on the Deodoro Complex in the north of the city was the highlight of the second day of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Committee inspection here today. 

International Broadcast Centre, before ending the tour at the Barra venue which will host the inaugural Olympic golf

By Gary AndersonMarch 19 - The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced Torrey Pines Golf

We have a great partner in the City of San Diego and this community loves golf."

man Phil Mickelson have all claimed multiple wins.The facility also hosts the San Diego City Amateur Golf

Championship every June and the Junior World Golf Championships every July.Father and son William P

at the 2008 US Open ©Getty Images "The City of San Diego is proud to welcome back the United States Golf

Just as San Diego served as home to one of the greatest Championships in golf history in 2008, we're

By Nick Butler at the Rio 2016 Headquarters in Rio de JaneiroMarch 19 - Although every Olympics should be unique Rio 2016 must learn from the successful elements of Sochi 2014, International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission head Nawal El Moutawakel claimed here this morning.

a venue tour to be undertaken by the Commission members tomorrow.The site of the inaugural Olympic golf

By Duncan MackayMarch 19 - International relations and communications specialists JTA will be a Silver Partner at this year's SportAccord International Convention in Belek/Antalya, Turkey, it was announced today.

addition to ownership of the Business Club, JTA is also sponsoring the SportAccord Convention 2014 Golf

By Nick Butler in Rio de JaneiroMarch 18 - Rio 2016 organisers have received a boost in the form of new sponsorship agreements on the eve of the latest visit here by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission.

estimation, but organisers have said this is due to the introduction of four new sports - rugby sevens, golf

By Gary AndersonMarch 17 - Calls to scrap the men-only policy at three of the golf clubs used to stage

to stage the event have refused to change their stance; Royal St George's, Muirfield and Royal Troon golf

Edinburgh Golfers, which runs Muirfield, sent out the message that "women were second class citizens".With golf

Muirfield, but as of yet the outcome of that has not been made clear.In 2012, the Augusta National Golf

members.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesAugust 2012: Augusta golf

drops men-only rule to welcome top politician Rice as female memberApril 2009: Martin Gillingham - Does golf