After the Zika virus concern in 2016, the COVID pandemic affected the 2020 Games in Tokyo, forcing them to be postponed a year.

In 2017, the membership at host venue Kasumigaseki Country Club voted to change its policy so as to start including women, which kept the club from being stripped of hosting the golf competitions.

Xander Schauffele, USA (gold), Rory Sabbatini, Slovakia (silver) and C.T. Pan, Chinese Taipei (bronze) won the medals. Pan survived a seven-way playoff for the third-place spot. On the women’s side, Nelly Korda, USA (gold), Lydia Ko, New Zealand (silver) and Japan’s Mone Inami (bronze) won the medals. Ko became the first woman to win a second medal.

The U.S. contingent in 2020 was Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas and Patrick Reed as well as Nelly Korda, Jessica Korda, Danielle Kang and Lexi Thompson.