Golf at the 2018 Asian Games

Golf at the 2018 Asian Games was held at Pondok Indah Golf Course, Jakarta, Indonesia, from 23 to 26 August 2018 and featured four events: the men's individual and team events and women's individual and team events.[1]

Golf
at the 2018 Asian Games
VenuePondok Indah Golf Course
Dates23–26 August
Competitors128 from 25 nations
Golf at the
2018 Asian Games
Individualmenwomen
Teammenwomen

The event was open to amateur players only. Several national golf associations complained to the Court of Arbitration for Sport that Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Macau and Uzbekistan had possibly entered professional golfers, but the CAS ruled that none of the players were professional.[2]

Schedule

The men's individual and team competition as well the women's individual and team competition were played 23–26 August.

Medal summary

Medal table
RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Philippines2013
2 Japan2002
3 China0224
4 South Korea0213
Totals (4 nations)44412

Medalists
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual
 Keita Nakajima
 Japan		 Oh Seung-taek
 South Korea		 Jin Cheng
 China
Men's team
  Japan
Keita Nakajima
Ren Yonezawa
Daiki Imano
Takumi Kanaya		  China
Jin Cheng
Chen Yilong
Zhang Huachuang
Yuan Yechun		  South Korea
Kim Dong-min
Oh Seung-taek
Jang Seung-bo
Choi Ho-young
Women's individual
 Yuka Saso
 Philippines		 Liu Wenbo
 China		 Bianca Pagdanganan
 Philippines
Women's team
  Philippines
Yuka Saso
Bianca Pagdanganan
Lois Kaye Go		  South Korea
Ryu Hae-ran
Jeong Yun-ji
Lim Hee-jong		  China
Liu Wenbo
Du Mohan
Yin Ruoning

Participating nations

A total of 128 athletes from 25 nations competed in golf at the 2018 Asian Games:

References
  1. "Golf Sports Technical Handbook" (PDF). asiangames2018.id. Indonesia Asian Games 2018 Organizing Committee. 15 February 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  2. "Games-CAS satisfied Asian Games golfers aren't professional". Reuters. 22 August 2018.
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