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You had to be graceful to take the buggy.

One striking, long and without a cape.

The keys were in.

The Japanese have the beautiful countryside.

It's too big to kick on foot.

And it's a shame to stay in the press room in front of a screen.

In addition, in the journalists' shelter they have put the air very cold, the coffee is bad and there are only some chocolates that are hard to eat.

The hundreds of volunteers who roam the

Kasumigaseki Country Club

work to, among other things, prevent an unauthorized person from taking a buggy.

But they are so polite and shy that they are ashamed to prevent an outsider from desecrating the temple of Japanese golf by driving a cart into the tall grass of the antegreen.

They look disapproving, but then they don't know what to do.

Golfers can be seen a long way from the asphalt road.

The best thing is to get a little closer to try to find the bizarre last-minute signing of Spanish golf:

Jorge Campillo

, who first set foot in the Olympic Village in Tokyo at midnight and, seven hours later, is already with the iron in hand.

This Extremadura occupies the vacancy left by

Jon Rahm

due to his positive for Covid.

He had to do three PCRs in 72 hours to get on the plane, as did his caddy,

Jesús Legarrea

, who is also suffering from 'jet lag' in Tokyo grass.

On the field, behind the entire line of volunteers and tapes so that no one bothers the players, is

Nacho Gervás

, sports director of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation.

"The field is very beautiful, it enters your eyes. But it is very fair, it has no trap," says Nacho, whom everyone is asking about the controversy with Campillo.

A slight mention is enough because we are not here to waste lines in a controversy of a few days ago: A Galician,

Santiago Tarrío

, was the next player in the ranking to travel to Tokyo.

But the Federation had not updated the list it presented in March with its five best golfers, in which Campillo appeared ahead of Tarrío.

End of story because the important thing is that there is no way to find Campillo among the 60 men who compete four rounds of 18 holes with the Stroke Play format of the Games.

The truth is that after five days visiting different venues, the golf one is by far the most lively.

It even seems that there is an audience if we join the transfer of volunteers, members of the federations of the competing countries, security guards, field workers and journalists.

It is the closest thing to the normality of a Games without a pandemic.

Volunteers cleaning the Olympic rings of the Kasumigaseki Country Club.AFP

Kasumigaseki Camp is in the city of Saitama, about an hour and a half drive from the Tokyo Olympic Village.

The place has a curious history that is explained in a mural that is very close to where the Italian golfer

Guido Migliozzi has taken

a nap

after finishing his first round.

Kasumigaseki was built in 1929 for the Japanese elite.

When the Second World War ended with Japan as the defeated power, the United States requisitioned - the Japanese speak of kidnapping - the club for seven years and handed it over to its military based in the Asian country so that they could spend some time entertaining outside the bases.

Back to the original owner in 1952, Kasumigaseki was a "men's club" until just four years ago, when they let three members join their 1,280 members who pay a more than considerable annual amount,

76,000 euros

, for being part of the select club and play on a field that was renovated for the Games, adding nearly 500 yards to the 7,000 that already existed.

"You cannot wear shorts to enter the front door, although you can wear them on the field, as long as you also have knee-high socks," reads one of the club's rules. He continues: "In the height of summer, players are asked to have the courtesy to change their shirts and pants before entering the dining room, to avoid leaving a wet seat for the next guest."

We continue to search with the buggy for Jorge Campillo during the first day of golf at these Games, which are repeated after Rio 2016, after they disappeared from the Olympic program for more than a century.

Those we do find are South Koreans

Sungjae Im and Si Woo Kim

, who if they get a medal will get rid of military service in their country.

"It is true that if we win a medal, the government will exempt us from serving in the army," Kim told several journalists during a break during the day.

We also see

Adri Arnaus

, the other Spaniard in the men's golf tournament, who has been twelfth, five strokes behind the leader of the first day, the Austrian

Sepp Straka.

As for Campillo.

Did he fall asleep in the Olympic Village after his time trial to get to Tokyo?

No. There he goes out with a blue polo shirt and a white cap with the flag of Spain.

He was the last to step on the field because that is how it has been granted to him by the organization so that he could rest a bit more after his quick trip.

"It was a bit confusing, but suddenly there was the option that I could come here.

I was on vacation in Cádiz

."

Word of the last to arrive in Tokyo.

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