Golf made its Olympic debut at the Paris Games, with separate men's and women's competitions. It returned in 1904, then disappeared from the program for more than a century.
Paris staged separate golf events for men and women at the 1900 Olympic Games. Margaret Abbott, an American studying art in France, won the women's competition on a nine-hole course.
The early Games did not present themselves like the Olympics familiar today. Abbott did not realize the status of her victory, and historians established its Olympic significance later. Golf returned once more in 1904, then disappeared from the program for over a century.