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:

Abraham Ancer of Group Mexico performs his shot from the primary tee throughout the remaining spherical of the Males’s Particular person Stroke Play on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games at Kasumigaseki Nation Membership. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photos)
Nation: Mexico
OWGR: 345
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-14


Poland’s Adrian Meronk tees off from the first tee in spherical 1 of the mens golf particular person stroke play throughout the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games on the Kasumigaseki Nation Membership. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
Nation: Poland
OWGR: 75
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-51


Joaquin Niemann of Group Chile performs his shot from the sixteenth tee throughout the second spherical of the Males’s Particular person Stroke Play on day seven of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games at Kasumigaseki Nation Membership. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photos)
Nation: Chile
OWGR: 110
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-10


Carlos Ortiz of Mexico traces up a putt on the primary inexperienced throughout the third spherical of the Males’s Particular person Stroke Play on day eight of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games at Kasumigaseki Nation Membership. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photos)
Nation: Mexico
OWGR: 268
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-42


Mito Pereira performs an strategy shot on the twelfth gap throughout the second spherical of the lads’s competitors on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games at Kasumigaseki Nation Membership. (Chris Trotman/Getty Photos)
Nation: Chile
OWGR: 320
Olympic expertise: Tokyo, 2021, T-4


David Puig performs his second shot on the fifth gap throughout day two of The 152nd Open championship at Royal Troon. (Ross Kinnaird/Getty Photos)
Nation: Spain
OWGR: 129
Olympic expertise: First look


Jon Rahm traces up a putt on the second inexperienced on day one in every of The 152nd Open championship at Royal Troon. (Warren Little/Getty Photos)
Nation: Spain
OWGR: 10
Olympic expertise: First look