Journeymen golfers eye major breakthrough with Rio gold

Longshot golfing gold medal hopefuls are shooting for a life-changing prize -- spots in the four major championships -- when the sport returns to the Olympics on Thursday for the first time since 1904. With the world's top four choosing to skip Rio, unheralded players such as 318th-ranked Siddikur Rahman of Bangladesh and Portugal's Jose-Filipe Lima, the lowest-ranked player in the field at 405th, have the chance of a lifetime. "It's great they have given an exemption to the gold medal winner to the four majors," said reigning Masters champion Danny Willett, among this week's favorites.

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