By Christopher Powers
With each passing day, golf in the Olympics gets more and more depressing. The latest hit came with news of World No. 1 Jon Rahm and 2020 U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau being forced to withdraw after they each tested positive for COVID. That leaves just three of the top 10 players in the world in the field, and just seven of the top 20. “Bummer” is definitely the operative word here.

But if you’re not a Negative Nancy or a Debbie Downer or some sort of gender-neutral depressed person, you can still see the positives in this Olympics, like the stories of Si Woo Kim and Sungjae Im, or the fact that Captain America himself, Patrick Reed, is replacing DeChambeau, and is more-than likely as excited as he’s ever been to don the red, white and blue.

Tommy Fleetwood, who is among the players in the field this week, might be the only one more excited than Reed. The team Great Britain member proved as much in a tweet he sent just past 6 p.m. local time in Tokyo, 5 a.m. ET:

Please excuse my language but I’d just like to say that I F*@%ING LOVE THE OLYMPICS!!!! #olympics #TeamGB

— Tommy Fleetwood (@TommyFleetwood1) July 26, 2021

Did Fleetwood come off a great range session before sending this? Does he really love the course? Is the Olympics experience that awesome? Did he start drinking at happy hour, 5 p.m.-ish? Who knows, but what we do know is this is extremely refreshing to see amidst all the negative Olympics news we seem to see every other hour. Between 3v3 basketball, that crazy Aussie swimming coach and this Fleetwood tweet, maybe the Olympics are very lowkey back.

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By Ryan Herrington
Bringing back Scotland’s Elaine Farquaharson-Black as the Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup captain for next year’s match at Quaker Ridge G.C. outside New York City was the easy part. The two-time Curtis Cup player deserved to keep the job, a decision the R&A made official on Wednesday, after overseeing an impressive 11½-8½ GB&I victory over the U.S. in the 2016 matches at Dun Laoghaire.

Now for the hard part: Winning the Cup for a second straight.

Just once in the Curtis Cup’s 85-year history has a GB&I captain successfully led her side to two straight victories in the competition—Diane Bailey doing it in 1986 and 1988. Elizabeth Boatman led the winning GB&I team in 1992 and then saw her side retain the Cup in 1994 when the match ended in a tie.

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