RIO HOPES FOR WOMENS GOLF
Female golfer
Female golfer driving

Golf featured for the first time at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and give a welcome boost for the game's profile. The new Olympic Course was declared a great success.

Watch this brilliant BBC Sport feature with the hopes and aspirations of Charley Hull and Catriona Matthew - and how they think the event could prove a positive springboard for women and youth to take up the game. Click on the image below to view:

You can find out more about an exciting new initiative to promote women's involvement in the game, with love.golf: https://www.love.golf/

TEST PASSED

Brazil's highest ranking player in the competition, Alexandre Rocha, said: "This is the future for us.

"Our existing courses are old and this is modern golf. We have plenty of land in this country to be able to make more courses like this."

Read a report of the new course on the Games' website here.