Australia's Adam Scott has come in for criticism after announcing he would be unavailable for the Rio Olympics, because of his busy schedule.
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Australia’s Adam Scott has come in for criticism after announcing he would be unavailable for the Rio Olympics,
because of his busy schedule. **> Adam Scott has decided he is “too busy” to play in August's Rio 2016 Olympic Games https://t.co/SRGScxckja pic.twitter.com/bAVyiUkPaD
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> — CNN (CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/722745231431569408">April 20, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Golf returns to the Olympic programme for the first time in 112 years. <b> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"tw-align-center data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DAWN FRASER BLASTS ADAM SCOTT: "How much money do you want in life?<br>"Not showing much for your country." <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AdamScott?src=hash">#AdamScott</a> <a href="https://t.co/uhK0OtqJ5O">pic.twitter.com/uhK0OtqJ5O</a></p>— BeyondTheGameTV (BeyondTheGameAU) April 21, 2016
Aged 78, Australian swimming great Dawn Fraser laid into Scott, she said:
“Well done Adam great to put your country on hold so that you can fulfil your own schedule.” **> Jack Nicklaus reacts to the news that Adam Scott won't participate in the 2016 Olympics: https://t.co/Lva0RILTwo pic.twitter.com/uUKp3DnfiD
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> — GOLF.com (@golf_com) April 21, 2016
Others have come to his defence saying golf has no place in the Olympic Games.****