Will definitely try the second suggestion if the first one fails! What exactly does that command do? (sudo apt-get install golang)
sudo apt-get install golang automatically installs Go and other dependencies in case they are needed on your system. I wonder why it isn't mentioned in the tutorial. There is a slight chance that the repository won't be available for your OS (I can't recall which version it was) and the whole installation will fail. If you don't want to play around with the 32 bit version then you can try using this command first.