Olympics-Golf-Japan's Inami raises medal hopes after Matsuyama misses


  • Golf
  • Friday, 06 Aug 2021

Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Golf - Women's Individual - Final - Round 3 - Kasumigaseki Country Club - Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan - August 6, 2021. Mone Inami of Japan in action. REUTERS/Toby Melville

KAWAGOE (Reuters) - Japanese golfer Mone Inami is taking up the host nation's hopes of a medal at the Olympics golf, after high-profile Hideki Matsuyama failed to bag a bronze https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/golf-covid-after-effects-weigh-matsuyama-pipped-bronze-2021-08-01 at the men's competition.

The 22-year-old, one of the two Japanese female golfers playing at the Games, finished with ten under par total on the third round on Friday, in a four-way tie for bronze.

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