Article: Olympic Games: Spirit of Olympics and Much Wenlock revived where cash and sponsors once held sway; Few beyond a rural township in Shropshire are aware that the modern Olympic Games were born there, writes Michael Blair who warms to another Olympian golf tournament.(Sport)

Byline: Michael Blair

Golf in the Olympic Games? Not a universally approved of notion and the arguments for and against await their crescendo.

But if the pro-lobby prevail, they will be offering the world nothing innovative.

There was an Olympian golf tournament last year and the two years before that and, probably unbeknown to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Royal & Ancient (R&A), there will be another held this year.

In Shrewsbury. Mark the date: Monday, July 15.

It would have been held in another part of ...

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