By Martin Gillingham - 21 April 2009   A group of would-be Olympian women ski jumpers are suing organisers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics because they believe they’re being discriminated against. Meanwhile, the debate rages on over why riders likes Victoria Pendleton are unfairly treated because the women’s track cycling programme at the summer games doesn’t mirror quite so purely the men’s in the way it does at the sport’s World Championships.

Which brings me on to golf.                

Dawson’s dossier informing us why golf should be granted Olympic status runs to 32 pages.

Allow me first to lay bare my love of golf.

And what of the Royal & Ancient, the golf club of golf clubs, the governing body that sets all the rules

The home of golf is where Mary Queen of Scots once teed off.

April 16 - Rugby sevens hopes of being admitted to the Olympic programme for the 2016 Games have been boosted by record television figures at the World Cup in Dubai last month.

The others are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, softball and squash.  

April 16 - Rugby sevens hopes of being admitted to the Olympic programme for the 2016 Games have been boosted by record television figures at the World Cup in Dubai last month.

The others are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, softball and squash.  

number one Tiger Woods (pictured) is one of 18 of the world's leading golfers to back the International Golf

have also written to their respective IOC members, Pat Hickey and Robin Mitchell, to try and restore golf

Dawson said this would give golf "the best chance of being selected by the IOC to participate in the

Phil Mickelson, the winner of three Majors, claimed last year that if golf were included in the Olympics

But former US Open winner Geoff Ogilvy claimed that golf should not be in the Olympics.  

Dawson said last year that a strokeplay competition would be the proposed format for golf at the Games

  By Michele Verroken - 9 April 2009   FIFA and UEFA’s stand against the new World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) whereabouts policy is providing the sporting world with a new spectator sport. Not quite a match between David and Goliath but an interesting contest of dogma and reality. The sporting world is watching this power struggle with genuine interest, it goes to the core of anti-doping efforts.  

anti-doping policy, designed the Drug Information Database and now advises (among others) professional golf

anti-doping policy, designed the Drug Information Database and now advises (among others) professional golf

    By Martin Gillingham - 7 April 2009   Few with a golfing bent will disagree that this weekend is one of the three most significant of the year – it’s the Masters at Augusta.  

Anyone who has read the “Little Red Book” will know of Harvey Penick’s contribution to golf teaching

Penick had first placed a golf club in the hand of Crenshaw when he was just six.

its apartheid policy, so the sporting world would focus its attention for one week every year on a golf

Should the Olympics really be thinking of adding a sport like golf to the programme when it has such

I, for one, will not be watching golf in the 2016 Olympics if it is added in October.

Anyone who has read the “Little Red Book” will know of Harvey Penick’s contribution to golf teaching

Penick had first placed a golf club in the hand of Crenshaw when he was just six.

its apartheid policy, so the sporting world would focus its attention for one week every year on a golf

April 6 - A new national softball league is to be set up in Britain this summer in an effort to try to help the sport regain its place in the Olympics for 2016, it was announced today.

The others are baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash.  

April 6 - Baseball is to add a women's component to its bid to get reinstated for the 2016 Summer Games, it was revealed today.

Besides baseball and softball, they are golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash.  

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic ParkApril 3 - President Lula of Brazil (pictured), seeking to win the 2016 Games for Rio, made an impassioned plea for the Olympic Movement to recognise the new realities of world economic power after visiting London’s site today.

If the Olympics was a golf tournament it could be just in these countries."

April 21 - Drug-testing will be introduced at the British Open, the oldest major golf championship, for

"The Royal & Ancient thoroughly supports the anti-doping policies at golf events."  

2016 Games, there will be a collective intake of breath by those championing squash, rugby sevens, golf

March 2009 at 20:25pm Squash is surely a shoe-in, it's who gets the other places that worries me. ... golf

    By Mike Rowbottom - 18 March 2009   For those backing the seven sports seeking a way into the Olympics, these are nervy days.  

2016 Games, there will be a collective intake of breath by those championing squash, rugby sevens, golf

2009 at 20:25pm Squash is surely a shoe-in, it's who gets the other places that worries me. ... golf

    By Martin Gillingham - 10 March 2009    Sebastian Coe reckons it’s a good idea and “more important than just re-choreographing the deckchairs”.  

The sport is not like golf or tennis which has a number of events which are of equal importance to its

I am thinking events like Wimbledon and the US Open in tennis and the Masters and British Open in golf