July 25, 2016 – The newly designed Olympic Golf Course at Reserva de Marapendi in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil will host golf’s return to the Olympic Games after 112 years. Designed by architect Gil Hanse and partner Jim Wagner, along with consultation from LPGA Hall-of-Famer Amy Alcott, the Olympic course will have the unique distinction of hosting the men’s and women’s Olympic golf competitions in consecutive weeks in August. As Hanse says, the land secured for the golf course featured three distinctions: a sand-filled former mining site to the north, a low-lying middle area, and an environmentally-sensitive area with dense vegetation to the south. “Like every course we build, we’ve tried to make this course just look like it belongs on the property where it sits,” Hanse says. Moreover, Hanse says he wants the golf course to challenge the best players while still rewarding good play. “Whenever you design a golf course, you want to understand that it can yield good scoring,” he says. “You want to build a golf course so that if a player is hitting good shots, he or she is rewarded.”

In the videos, Gil Hanse shares intimate hole-by-hole details in 18 individual flyover episodes.

View the hole-by-hole details in 18 individual flyover episodes here.

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