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It began at the turn of the 20th century, when English and Scottish railway engineers convinced some Benedictine monks to set aside a parcel of land for the game on a monastery near Sao Paulo. A lot of people would argue it nearly ended there, too, soon superseded in Brazil’s sporting hierarchy by another wildly popular Scottish import of the era called “futbol.”

Golf remains a niche sport here, played largely by the rich. But the hope is that the game’s return at these Olympics could spark a boom, not unlike the way a swashbuckling young American named Arnold Palmer convinced his countrymen to pick up a club and give golf a go in the 1960s.

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