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With its top players deciding to forgo the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Australia announced its mens golf team of Scott Hend and Marcus Fraser on Wednesday. The countrys most successful womens player, Karrie Webb, was missing the games for a different reason -- she failed to qualify.Jason Day and Marc Leishman (concerns over Zika virus) and Adam Scott (scheduling issue) said they wouldnt play in Rio, leaving the 81st-ranked Hend and No. 86 Fraser to play in golfs s return to the Olympics after 112 years.Minjee Lee (No. 14) and Su Oh (No. 41) will play on the womens team for Australia, leaving Webb, a seven-time LPGA major winner and World Golf Hall of Fame member, on the sidelines after her ranking of 58 failed to see her qualify.Those selected jumped at the opportunity provided to become their countrys first golfing Olympians.To play in the Olympics is a dream come true, said Fraser. Obviously, with golf being back for the first time in over 100 years, it is pretty amazing, and its going to be a great week and I cant wait to represent our great country.?Hend, who will turn 43 during the final round of the 72-hole stroke play event, is embracing the Olympics as a new experience in his long career.Ill go to Brazil and represent Australia the best way that I can, said Hend. Ive never been to Brazil, and while Ive competed in Mexico and Panama, Im looking forward to pulling on the green and gold, as it will be something different.Lee, 20, is the highest ranked of the Australians at world No.14, having already won two LPGA Tour titles inside her first two seasons as a pro.I cant wait to represent Australia in the Olympics and think it is the highest honor that you can ever have, Lee said.Just being among all the amazing athletes will be pretty cool, and the atmosphere of the Olympics will be a special thing.Oh, also 20, edged out golf great Webb for the second Australian womens team berth on ranking, after claiming second and eighth placings on the LPGA Tour in the past couple of months.When my parents brought my big sister, my little brother and me to Australia when I was 8 years old, I didnt even play golf, Oh said. They could never in their wildest dreams have imagined one of us would represent Australia in the Olympic Games.Its a dream come true for my whole family.?Lee and Oh were part of the Australian team that won the world amateur championship in 2014.The Olympic womens golf tournament starts on Aug. 17, while the mens tourney begins Aug. 11.Information from the Associated Press and?Australian Associated Press was used in this report. LAS VEGAS -- Claressa Shields didnt feel at her best, but her pro debut was a winning one anyway.The two-time Olympic gold medalist won a decision Saturday over Franchon Crews in a four-round super middleweight fight, making the transition to the pros after the most successful amateur career for an American woman.Shields came back from a slow first round to land the bigger punches in an entertaining fight on the undercard of the Sergey Kovalev-Andrew Ward light heavyweight title fight on the Las Vegas Strip.Its not what I wanted but to be called on, last minute, for a fight of this magnitude, Shields said. I am proud of myself. We will fight again in the future.Both women were fighting without headgear for the first time but it didnt seem to be a factor as they traded punches freely before a sparse but appreciative crowd. Shields won all four rounds on the scorecards of the three ringside judges.Shields, who became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics and added another in Rio in August, had vowed to be impressive in her first pro fight. And she wasnt shyy about trading punches with Franchon, a Baltimore fighter who lost to her during the Olympic trials in 2012.ddddddddddddShields was pushed to the canvas twice by Crews, who started strong but seemed to tire quickly.It feels so good to have just made my pro debut, she said. This is what Ive been training for. Im faster and I hit harder.Shields, from Flint, Michigan, weighed 167 pounds to 168 for Crews.The 21-year-old Shields said she plans to fight up to 10 times in her first year as a pro. Her goal is to one day headline a pay-per-view card of her own.I believe 150 percent in my boxing ability, she said before the fight. I know Im a great fighter. I fight better than 90 percent of the men who box now. I just know that, and Im not at my best yet.Womens boxing has largely been a fringe sport in recent years, and women have rarely appeared on televised cards. While the fight was on the undercard of Kovalev-Ward, it wasnt a part of the pay-per-view telecast. ' ' '