Olympic Games: Everything you need to about know Golf at Paris 2024

Golf will be one of 32 sports to feature in Paris 2024, with 60 men and 60 women competing in individual tournaments for a third consecutive Summer Games.

Here is everything you need to know, including where and when the competition will be held, how players qualify and who are the current Olympic golf gold medallists.

When does golf at the 2024 Olympic Games take place?
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The Games will be staged from July 26 to August 11.

The men’s Olympic golf event is set to take place from August 1-4, with the women’s tournament being staged from August 7-10.

Where will the Olympic golf events be played?
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Both events will be played at Le Golf National, a European Tour Destinations member venue, located in Guyancourt on the outskirts of Paris.

The Albatros course previously staged the 2018 Ryder Cup and has been a long-serving host of the Open de France on the DP World Tour.

How many golfers will compete at the 2024 Olympics?
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There will be 120 athletes competing in the golf competition of Paris 2024, 60 in each of the men’s and women’s events, which is exactly the same amount as Tokyo 2020.

The host nation France will secure two quota places, one per gender. The other 118 quota places (59 per gender) will be decided by the Olympic Golf Ranking (OGR).

What is the format for the 2024 Olympic golf events?
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Players in both the men’s and women’s events will play a 72-hole strokeplay competition across four days, with gold, silver and bronze medals awarded for each of the top three finishers.

There is no cut and in the event of a tie for any of the medals, a sudden death play-off will take place to determine the medallists.

Who are the reigning Olympic golf champions?
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It was a Team USA double at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, postponed by a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Xander Schauffele and Nelly Korda won the gold medals, in the men's and women's competitions respectively.

In the men's competition, Rory Sabbatini (Slovakia) earned the silver with a 10-under-par 61 on the final day, while CT Pan (Chinese Tapai) came out on top of a seven-man play-off on the fourth extra hole. In the women's competition, Japan's Mone Inami claimed silver and New Zealand's Lydia Ko added a bronze medal to the silver she had won at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

When did golf return to the Olympic Games?
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Golf made a long-awaited return to the Olympic Games in 2016, played in Rio for the first time in 112 years.

First introduced in Paris in 1900 with just a men's individual tournament and men's team competition, the Games then returned in 1904 in St. Louis with both a men and women's individual event. The sport was planned to be included in 2008 but was cancelled, and it would be instead a wait of over a century for them to return.

Golf officially made its return eight years ago, and will now make its fifth appearance in the Games at Paris 2024.

How do players qualify for Paris 2024?
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Each event will comprise 60-player fields with golfers qualifying based on the official International Golf Federation (IGF) world ranking list published on June 17, 2024 for men and June 24, 2024 for women.

The top 15 players will all qualify automatically (maximum of four per National Olympic Committee (NOC).

Beyond the top 15, players will be eligible based on the world rankings, with a maximum of two eligible players from each country that does not already have two or more players among the top 15.

The OGR is calculated every Monday following completion of the previous week’s tournaments

Points are awarded to athletes based on their final positions in each ranking event, with performances in events with stronger fields earning more points, in accordance with a points distribution schedule approved by the IGF. The OGR is ordered according to the average points that athletes manage to accumulate over a two-year qualifying period.

Who is currently in line to qualify for Paris 2024?
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As it stands, a total of 60 golfers from 32 countries are in line to qualify for the men's event at the Olympics in 2024. The USA have the most qualified players with four players inside the top ten in the OWGR.

_*Table correct as of 24/04/2024_