Classy performances delivered

Nelly Korda of the United States walks the Kasumigaseki course with her caddie and a cameraman en route to her gold medal yesterday. – AFP

THE golf competitions, for men and women, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games provided great excitement and joy, mixed with pain and anguish, just as great sports festivals do.

Contrary to the naysayers, who wrote off the golf competition even before it started with the men’s tournament at Kasumigaseki Country Club, citing everything from a wrong format to the pandemic on why things would not work, the event – one of 33 sports disciplines at the Tokyo Games – delivered big time. It was nice, it was timely and it was gracious in its deliverance.