[Golf Topic] Tokyo Olympic Gold Medalist Shopliffe "Gifted Victory Ring to Caddy"
[Asia Economy Kim Hyun-jun, Golf Specialist Reporter] ○…‘Tokyo Olympics Gold’ Xander Schauffele (USA) made a ‘championship ring’ for his caddie….
On the 3rd (Korean time), the US Caddie Network posted a photo of Schauffele’s caddie Austin Kaiser’s Olympic championship ring on social media. Kaiser introduced it as "a gift from the Schauffele family." It is interesting that the US media Insider expressed the view that "the role of a caddie in golf is similar to that of a coxswain in the rowing eight event." They argued that "caddies also exert powerful influence over the player’s performance" and "should be awarded medals like coxswains."
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Schauffele secured a one-stroke victory (18-under 266) at the Tokyo Olympics last August, leading with a daily best 8-under in the second round. The news included that his father is of French and German mixed heritage, and his mother was born in Taiwan and raised in Japan from the age of two. Rory Sabbatini (Slovakia), who changed his nationality from South Africa to Slovakia to compete, won the silver medal (17-under 267), and Pan Cheng-chung (Taiwan) earned the bronze medal (15-under 269) after a fierce playoff involving seven players.
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