Rio set for ‘an historic moment’ as golf returns to  Olympic Games

Brazil’s Adilson da Silva will hit the first shot in Olympic competition for 112 years tomorrow when golf’s controversial return to the Games finally gets underway.

International Golf Federation president Peter Dawson happily admitted it was certainly not a “random” draw which ensured world number 288 Da Silva tees off first at 7.30am local time, alongside Canada’s Graham DeLaet, and South Korea’s Byeong Hun An.

Canadian countryman George Lyon won the last Olympic gold medal in 1904, while An’s parents both won medals in table tennis in Seoul in 1988.