TORONTO (June 17, 2024) – Golf Canada and the Canadian Olympic Committee have introduced Crew Canada males’s golf athletes nominated to compete on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. The ladies’s golf athletes might be introduced at a later date. The 2 male athletes are:
Corey Conners (Listowel, Ont.)Nick Taylor (Abbottsford, B.C.)
The 2 athletes certified for Crew Canada based mostly on their standing on the Official World Golf Rankings on the shut of the Olympic qualification interval following the completion of the US Open on Sunday, June 16, 2024. On the shut of the Paris 2024 males’s qualification interval, Taylor sits thirty fifth on the Official Golf World Rating and Conners is thirty seventh.
The 2-year Olympic qualification interval for males’s golf featured an thrilling competitors amongst Canada’s top-ranked male golfers, which ramped up in current weeks and got here all the way down to the wire because the athletes labored to earn their spot on Crew Canada by their respective outcomes on the PGA TOUR and different world golf competitions.
Taylor will make his Olympic debut at Paris 2024. The 36-year-old is a four-time winner on the PGA TOUR, together with a historic win on the 2023 RBC Canadian Open to turn into the primary Canadian in practically 70 years to seize Canada’s Nationwide Males’s Open Championship. With that win, he grew to become the one Canadian male golfer to win the Canadian Junior (2006), Canadian Newbie (2007) and Canadian Open (2023) Championships. Taylor is a graduate of Golf Canada’s Nationwide Crew Program, and has represented Canada on the World Newbie Crew Championship (2008) and World Cup (2018). Taylor’s 2024 season consists of three top-10 finishes, highlighted by a victory on the 2024 WM Phoenix Open to lock in his Olympic spot.
“The chance to characterize my nation on the Olympics has been an enormous purpose of mine for a few years,” mentioned Taylor. “To see the information turn into official at the moment is kind of humbling and surreal. I’m excited to get to Paris to compete, proudly put on the Maple Leaf, and soak in what I do know might be an unbelievable expertise.”
Conners will make his second Olympic look after ending thirteenth on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games. A T9 end on the US Open this previous weekend helped vault the 32-year-old up 9 positions on the Official World Golf Rating to safe his spot at Paris 2024. He’s a two-time PGA TOUR winner (2019 and 2023 Valero Texas Open) who has earned 9 top-25 outcomes this season together with a solo sixth place end on the 2024 RBC Canadian Open. Additionally a graduate of Golf Canada’s Nationwide Crew Program and previous member of the Presidents Cup Worldwide Crew (2022), Conners has represented Canada on quite a few events, together with the World Newbie Crew Championship in 2012 and 2014.
“It will be an enormous honour to characterize Canada alongside all the opposite athletes,” mentioned Conners. “It was an enormous purpose of mine to make the staff once more this 12 months and I can’t wait to get to Paris.”
Taylor and Conners will look to turn into the primary Canadian to win an Olympic golf medal since George Lyon’s gold medal at St. Louis 1904. Canada’s finest finishes in males’s golf for the reason that sport returned to the Olympics in 2016 had been a thirteenth place end for Conners (Tokyo 2020) and a twentieth place end for Graham DeLaet (Rio 2016).
Golf Canada’s Director of Excessive-Efficiency Emily Phoenix praised the athletes for his or her willpower by the qualification interval to see their Olympic desires turn into a actuality.
“Nick and Corey, together with the entire Canadian gamers have proven a substantial amount of perseverance all through the qualification interval which reveals how a lot representing Canada on the Olympics means to the athletes. The depth of Canadian expertise proper now within the skilled recreation is important and we look ahead to sending a powerful staff to characterize Canada in Paris.”
The boys’s golf match at Paris 2024 will happen August 1 – August 4 (Days 6 – 9) at Le Golf Nationwide.
‘’Congratulations to our two Crew Canada golfers who’re completely within the swing for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games! Because of their meticulous preparation, these athletes are attacking challenges with spectacular drive. Their endurance, technical mastery, and calm underneath stress place them on the pinnacle of their efficiency. They show that onerous work and fervour result in the belief of our desires,‘’ mentioned Bruny Surin, Crew Canada’s Paris 2024 Chef de Mission.
Crew Canada’s males’s golf staff for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games additionally consists of the next caddies and assist employees:
Caddies & Assist StaffEmily Phoenix (Calgary, Alta.) – Crew LeaderDavid Markle (Shelburne, Ont.) – Caddie for Nick TaylorDanny Sahl (Sherwood, Alta.) – Caddie for Corey Conners
The qualification interval for choosing Crew Canada’s two feminine athletes for the Paris 2024 Olympic golf competitors ends on Sunday, June 23.
Previous to being named to Crew Canada, all nominations are topic to approval by the Canadian Olympic Committee’s Crew Choice Committee following its receipt of nominations by all Nationwide Sport Organizations.
The most recent Crew Canada Paris 2024 roster may be discovered right here.
