Rio Olympic Golf Course nearly empty

As the Agence France-Presse reports, the Olympic Golf Course, host for men’s and women’s golf for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August, is facing a bevy of issues that could lead to its demise.

The Olympic Golf Course, according to the AFP, has an almost entirely unfurnished clubhouse, a cafe with just one waiter and one other worker to collect greens fees and no pro shop or head pro.

In what might be the most pressing of these issues, the Olympic Golf Course may see its course fail to survive the ravages of nature.

As the AFP notes, Progolf has been commissioned to manage the course’s upkeep, yet one employee (Neil Cleverly) claimed the company had not been paid by the Brazilian Golf Federation for the course work for two months.

If they couldn’t, a source close to Progolf told the AFP that the Olympic Golf Course, without maintenance, “could take four weeks, three weeks” to die.