The fields for the boys’s and ladies’s golf competitions on the Paris Olympics have been introduced by the Worldwide Golf Federation, with 32 nations represented within the males’s competitors and 33 within the girls’s subject, throughout all six totally different continents.
Paris 2024 will mark the fifth time that golf has been featured as an Olympic sport, and simply the third time since 1904.
The lads’s competitors takes place from August 1-4, whereas the ladies’s occasion is being held from August 7-10. Le Golf Nationwide, which yearly hosts the Open de France on the DP World Tour and was the location of the 2018 Ryder Cup, is the host venue for each occasions.
In whole, 38 totally different shall be represented throughout each the boys’s and ladies’s competitions, with the USA sending probably the most athletes, seven (4 males, three girls).
The complete checklist of NOCs represented within the fields consists of a minimum of one participant from Australia, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Chinese language Taipei, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Nice Britain, India, Eire, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, and america of America.
Within the males’s subject, 10 of the highest 15 gamers within the Official World Golf Rating, as of this week, are competing, together with all the top-five ranked gamers. Within the girls’s subject, all 15 of the top-15 ranked girls within the Rolex Rankings shall be competing in Paris.
Staff GB shall be represented by Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick within the males’s occasion, and Charley Hull and Georgia Corridor within the girls’s match.
Staff USA loved double gold success on the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, with Xander Schauffele profitable the boys’s occasion and Nelly Korda the ladies’s. Each gamers shall be defending their titles subsequent month.
For a full checklist of the fields for each occasions, click on right here.
