Beach volleyball, rowing and 3x3 basketball have been chosen as optional sports for the Rhine-Ruhr bid for the 2025 Summer World University Games.

, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, tennis, volleyball and water polo.Boxing, cycling, equestrian, golf

The International Judo Federation (IJF) says it has met the governance target score of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) after a re-evaluation of its performance.

B.The largest category also includes the International Federation of Sport Climbing, the International Golf

Mayor of Helsinki Jan Vapaavuori has been elected as the new President of the Finnish Olympic Committee.

Korjus, Katja Mjøsund and Esa Niemi will all take roles, representing the sports of football, skiing, golf

World number one Ko Jin-young stormed to victory at the season-ending Ladies Professional Golf Association

six-under-par round of 66 to record a convincing victory in the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburón Golf

Athletics has had a lousy 2020. Not that any sport has had a great 12 months, but the absence of a major championships after the postponement of Tokyo 2020, coupled with a severe lack of cash in the World Athletics coffers, has left the sport trailing those that have been able to keep their shows on the road in bubbles for sofa-bound audiences. Shoe wars and drug scandals have hardly helped either. Thankfully, redemption may be but eight months away, if only athletics’ leaders can seize their quadrennial moment when the world drops everything to watch its greatest runners, jumpers...

for matches that stretched well beyond the usual boundaries of the sport’s summer calendar, and the golf

Kim Sei-young and Ko Jin-young swapped positions on the leaderboard in round three of the CME Group Tour Championship, with the former now holding a one-shot lead after shooting a five-under-par 67.

at the tournament's halfway stage, shot a bogey-free 69 which represents her worst round at Tiburón Golf

Club in south-west Florida this week - testament to the standard of golf she has been playing.The South

duo played together in round three and will do so again in the final round of the Ladies Professional Golf

Peter Dawson, who steps down as President of the International Golf Federation (IGF) at the end of this

The 72-year-old Scot, who played a key part in guiding golf back into the Olympics in 2016 after an absence

And all the metrics around golf in Rio were strong in terms of social media and TV numbers, and that

And of course the prospect of a Games in a golf-loving country like Japan is something to look forward

Tokyo 2020 golf was sold out I believe," Dawson said.The ultimate success of the Rio 2016 golf competition

And strokeplay is the way that golf largely determines its major champions."

World number one Ko Jin-young shot a bogey-free 67 to claim the halfway lead at the end-of-season CME Group Tour Championship.

champion.Kim had made a white-hot start to round two, with four birdies on the opening five holes at Tiburón Golf

for 11th at five under par.The 23-year-old from New Zealand has not won on the Ladies Professional Golf

Lexi Thompson shot a seven-under-par 65 to lead after the first round of the CME Group Tour Championship.

The American, an 11-time winner on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour, made eight birdies

seven holes - to claim a one-shot lead.Nanna Koerstz Madsen of Denmark is one shot behind at Tiburón Golf

is set to defend her title at the season finale CME Group Tour Championship this weekend at Tiburón Golf

This season is too tough with coronavirus, so I want to say thanks to the United States Golf Association

A brilliant final round saw Kim A-lim come from five shots back to win the US Women's Open in Houston.

finished with three straight birdies to shoot a four-under-par 67, and win by one shot at at The Champions Golf

four rounds.It is not only the 25-year-old's first major title, but also her first Ladies Professional Golf

year-old South Korean, won two majors in 2019 and now has top-two finishes at four of the five women's golf

A sports event which helped inspire Baron Pierre de Coubertin to revive the Olympic Games is seeking volunteers to help secure its future.

shrink down to a core set of activities, athletics and a road race, maybe not all the add-ons like golf

Hinako Shibuno has a narrow one-shot lead going into the final round of the US Women's Open in Houston, which has been delayed by a day because of inclement weather.

The young Japanese star started what was due to be the penultimate day at The Champions Golf Club with

Peter Dawson, who steps down at the end of this month after a decade as President of the International Golf

And therefore Rio’s bid for the Olympics didn’t include a golf course."

I fear now that golf might not survive beyond its two-Games cycle.

And strokeplay is the way that golf largely determines its major champions."

So it’s not by any means new to golf."

Could you please, please, please try to get golf into the Olympics?'"

Japan's Hinako Shibuno has taken a three-shot lead at the halfway point of the US Women's Open in Houston.

2019 Women's British Open champion is now on track to earn her second major title at the The Champions Golf

 "So my golf today was pretty safe, stable condition.

Check out all the sights and sounds from Friday at Champions Golf Club. pic.twitter.com/yuGouFPItW— U.S