It was coincidence, but also somewhat fitting, that the only two Olympic Golf male gold medal winners in modern times were also dueling for the Claret Jug a week ago in Scotland.
Playing together in the second-to-last group at Royal Troon, Justin Rose (the winner of the Rio Olympics in 2016) and Xander Schauffele (who took gold in Tokyo in 2021) would undoubtedly say that competing for one of golf’s major championships is a bigger, more prestigious deal than an Olympic medal.
