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Global growth has been the goal behind returning golf to the Olympics, but has a game historically behind the times arrived, for once, ahead of schedule?

On Sunday alone, an Argentinian, Fabian Gomez won the Sony Open in Hawaii in a playoff with Brandt Snedeker and a Costa Rican, Paul Chaplet, won the Latin American Amateur Championship to earn an invitation to the Masters.

In the week ahead, meanwhile, Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, becomes the epicenter of golf, with Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, Rickie Fowler and Henrik Stenson of Sweden, Nos. 1, 3, 5 and 6 in the World Ranking, squaring off in the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

As Tiger Woods so famously put it nearly 20 years ago, Hello, World.

Gomez is a journeyman who has hit his stride at 37. The victory was the second of his PGA Tour career …