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Mike Hall

Why The Most Recent Women's Major Champion Isn’t Playing In The Olympics

Ayaka Furue with the Amundi Evian Championship trophy.

When Ayaka Furue went five-under on her closing five holes to dramatically capture her maiden Major title in July’s Amundi Evian Championship, it cemented her reputation as one of the game’s brightest talents.

However, despite the 24-year-old’s achievement, she isn’t one of the two Japanese players competing at the women’s Olympics golf tournament in Paris this week. But why is that?

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