It’a nearly time for the 2024 Paris Olympic video games. Which means, one other heightened golf competitors on a worldwide stage.
Come Friday, the Olympics will start in France, and subsequent week, the lads’s golf competitors will kick off that includes 60 gamers from throughout the globe.
The boys’s competitors is about for Aug. 1-4 and the ladies’s Aug. 7-10. This summer season will mark the third consecutive Olympic Video games to incorporate golf after its return to the schedule in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
Sixty gamers earned a spot based mostly on the official Worldwide Golf Federation world rating record as of June 17, 2024. The Olympic qualifying standards is designed to make sure gamers from all over the world are represented, together with a big portion of the sphere ranked exterior the highest 200.
The highest 15 gamers on the earth are eligible, with a restrict of 4 gamers from any given nation. The remainder of the sphere got here from the rankings, with a most of two eligible gamers from every nation that doesn’t have already got two or extra gamers within the high 15. The host nation, France, is ensured a minimum of one spot.
Of the 60 gamers teeing it up at Le Golf Nationwide, seven of them name LIV Golf dwelling. Right here’s a take a look at the seven LIV Golf gamers competing within the Olympics:
Nation: Mexico
OWGR: 345
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-14
Nation: Poland
OWGR: 75
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-51
Nation: Chile
OWGR: 110
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-10
Nation: Mexico
OWGR: 268
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-42
Nation: Chile
OWGR: 320
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-4
Nation: Spain
OWGR: 129
Olympic expertise: First look
Nation: Spain
OWGR: 10
Olympic expertise: First look