Viktor HovlandPGA Tour events have been taking center stage on a weekly basis, but that will come to a halt this week for the first time in 2021. There's a valid reason for that, however, as golf is a sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and will be played this week while everything else in the sport is put on pause.

The competition this week marks just the second golf event at an Olympic Games since 1904 and it's the first-ever appearance for the sport during an Olympics held in Asia (the three previous instances happened in Europe, North America and South America). The men's field this week is not the best we'll see this season, but there is still plenty of intrigue and storylines heading into four days at Kasumigaseki Country Club.

Let's take a closer look at this week's contest with odds provided via William Hill Sportsbook.

Three things to know

1. South Korean stakes: For Sungjae Im and Si Woo Kim, there is far more than a medal at stake this weekend. An Olympic medal would exempt either man from a mandatory two-year military stint at some point over the next decade. As Daniel Rapaport exceptionally laid out in this in-depth look at everything that goes into both these exemptions as well as the mandatory service, there will be more pressure on Im and Kim than anyone else in this tournament. The most sobering part of it all from a golf perspective is not necessarily even the two-year service, but rather the recent evidence of just how hard it is to bounce back on the professional golf scene when it comes to an end.
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