One reason is that Golf is a professional sport and there is a lot of professional sports that are in the Olympics. Like other sports in the Olympics you can get paid to play if you are not in the Olympics and you can get about $25,000 to $40,000 in one year of just playing golf alone. Another part of this is it used to be in the Olympics and got taken out. Now if you are really good at golf you can become famous. For an example Tiger Woods is one of the best golfers in the world and Woods has earned $1.4 billion from prize money, endorsements and fees from