Vincent Hogan: Power surge fades but golf proves an Olympic winner

Seamus Power in action at the Olympic Games. Photo: Reuters

Vincent Hogan

Paul McGinley was quoting Lee Trevino just as the wheels began to loosen.

We'd been doing the maths and thinking fairytale, Seamus Power edging to within a stroke of bronze under the tropical steam-press of a blotchless Rio sky. Six under for the day, Power was playing the par three fourteenth, the faintest kink just beginning to insinuate itself into that elegant, college-buffed swing.