SWING!

A must-see exhibition in the Olympic Museum’s Gallery from 9 December 2015 to 31 January 2016.  Admission is free.

The exhibition SWING! has teed off.  After a 112-year absence, golf is returning to the Olympic programme in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.

To mark this event, The Olympic Museum, in collaboration with the International Golf Federation (IGF), is devoting an exhibition to golf. The exhibition will be on display at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne until 31 January 2016.

Staged at two editions of the Games (Paris 1900 and St Louis 1904), golf is getting its Olympic swing back.

A SIX-HOLE COURSE DESIGN

The exhibition design, with its six ‘holes’, offers a ‘walk through the course’ to visitors, enabling them to discover everything about the sport before the upcoming Games:  its origins, the equipment, Rules, courses and the biggest golfing icons.

After its time at the Olympic Museum, the SWING! exhibit will have a lasting legacy. It will be on display in the fan zone at the golf venue during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and will then visit the museums, tournaments and offices of a number of the IGFs 168 members organisations around the world.

AN INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION

With its interactive quizzes to test one’s knowledge about golf and the OMEGA Putting Challenge, this exhibition has something for everyone.

A GAME OF VALUES

“The IGF is extremely grateful to the IOC for the wonderful opportunity this exhibit provides to showcase the return of golf as an Olympic sport. As you will see in this exhibit, much has changed in our sport since it was last in the Olympic programme. But what has not changed are the values of golf and the spirit in which golf is played and governed.  Integrity, respect, excellence and solidarity are values that are in harmony with those of the Olympic movement and on display in this exhibit. Golf’s admission to the Olympic Programme has unified our sport. This exhibition is a great example of this unity and how daily the IGF collaborates with its membership in fulfilling its mission,” said Peter Dawson, IGF President during the inauguration ceremony of the exhibition.

“The return of Golf to the Games is not only good news for all golf fans around the world, but this exhibition also highlights values that are really important for the development of the Olympic spirit,” echoed Francis Gabet,  IOC Director of Culture