Rio Olympic Course Nearing The Panama Canal!
/Okay, at least the irrigation system is, anyway. Let's hope Captain Phillips is manning the ship.
Ian Ransom sat through Commissioner Tim Finchem's World Cup update on the Rio course under construction by Gil Hanse. Finchem gave a "reasonably good" for the course progress, which, in Finchemspeak, means it's not-as-far-along-as-it-should-be-but-I-don't-want-to-upset-the-IOC-yet.
"I was told yesterday that the irrigation system for the golf course had been boarded on a ship in Los Angeles that was headed for the Panama Canal," Finchem told reporters at Royal Melbourne golf club in the leadup to the World Cup of Golf.
"So, hooray, we will now have some water on the property.
"Actually the progress is reasonably good. We think the timeline is in order. We were really concerned there, as you know, for a good period of time.
"But I am going to go down here in spring and look at it."