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Olympic golf teams by country: Tracking the men’s field for Paris 2024, from Scottie Scheffler to Abraham Ancer | Sporting News United Kingdom

The U.S. Open will draw most of the fanfare in golf during June, but the end of the event will also mark a critical moment in the Olympic golf calendar.

The 60-player field for the 2024 Olympics will be set on the Monday following the U.S. Open.

The United States will have four players participate in the event, as Americans dominate the top 15 of the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR). Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele and Wyndham Clark were effectively locked into positions for Team USA, but Collin Morikawa staved off tough competition from Patrick Cantlay to clinch the final spot for the Americans.

Meanwhile, most other countries were hoping to qualify two players for the Olympics to take aim at a gold medal.

Here’s a look at how qualifying works for Olympic golf and the full, 60-player men’s field for Paris 2024.

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How to qualify for the 2024 Olympics in golf

A total of 120 golfers will participate in the 2024 Olympics — 60 in the men’s competition and 60 in the women’s. That’s the same number each had during the 2021 Tokyo Olympics — and countries will be limited to a maximum of four golfers in each field.

Two spots — one in the men’s field and one in the women’s — will be set aside for France, which is hosting the Olympic Games.

The Olympics uses the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) to help select the rest of its participants.

The top 15 players in the OWGR automatically qualify for the Olympics, though a maximum of four golfers per country can be selected from that group. For example, the United States has nine golfers currently in the top 15 of the OWGR, but the country will only take the four highest-ranking members of that group.

After selecting participants from the top 15, the Olympic committee looks at the golfers outside the top 15. Up to two players per country can be selected from this group — provided the country represented does not already have two or more golfers chosen for a squad.

For example, Tommy Fleetwood is presently inside the top 15 of the OWGR, so England will only be able to take one additional player with it to Paris. That would presently be 16th-ranked Matt Fitzpatrick while 20th-ranked Tyrrell Hatton would miss out.

That process can get a bit confusing, but the easiest way to remember this is that only the countries with three-plus golfers in the top 15 will be able to take more than two participants to Paris. As a result, the United States seems likely to be the only team with four golfers competing in the 60-person fields.

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Current Olympic golf rankings

The U.S. Open marked the final chance for golfers to improve their standing in the Olympic Golf Rankings (OGR). Canada’s Corey Conners and Spain’s David Puig took advantage of that opportunity, as they leapfrogged their countrymen Adam Hadwin and Jorge Campillo to earn a spot in the field of 60 for the event.

Below is a full look at the field of 60 golfers who will be invited to participate in the 2024 Olympics.

OGR rank OWGR Golfer Country
1 1 Scottie Scheffler United States
2 2 Rory McIlroy Ireland
3 3 Xander Schauffele United States
4 4 Ludvig Aberg Sweden
5 5 Wyndham Clark United States
6 6 Viktor Hovland Norway
7 7 Collin Morikawa United States
8 9 Jon Rahm Spain
9 12 Hideki Matsuyama Japan
10 13 Tommy Fleetwood Great Britain
11 18 Matt Fitzpatrick Great Britain
12 20 Matthieu Pavon France
13 21 Sepp Straka Austria
14 24 Jason Day Australia
15 26 Tom Kim South Korea
16 27 Byeong Hun An South Korea
17 33 Shane Lowry Ireland
18 35 Nick Taylor Canada
19 36 Min Woo Lee Australia
20 37 Corey Conners Canada
21 40 Christian Bezuidenhout South Africa
22 42 Stephan Jaeger Germany
23 44 Nicolai Hojgaard Denmark
24 48 Thomas Detry Belgium
25 52 Emiliano Grillio Argentina
26 55 Alex Noren Sweden
27 59 Ryan Fox New Zealand
28 67 Erik Van Rooyen South Africa
29 73 Adrian Meronk Poland
30 78 Victor Perez France
31 83 Keita Nakajima Japan
32 85 Thorbjorn Olesen Denmark
33 98 Alejandro Tosti Argentina
34 99 Joaquin Niemann Chile
35 100 Sami Valimaki Finland
36 108 Kevin Yu Chinese Taipei
37 113 David Puig Spain
38 134 Matti Schmid Germany
39 140 C.T. Pan Chinese Taipei
40 147 Joost Luiten Netherlands
41 155 Carl Yuan China
42 177 Camilo Villegas Colombia
43 180 Matteo Manassero Italy
44 187 Adrien Dumont de Chassart Belgium
45 190 Daniel Hillier New Zealand
46 195 Cristobel Del Solar Chile
47 198 Guido Migliozzi Italy
48 219 Shubshankar Sharma India
49 221 Rafael Campos Puerto Rico
50 237 Darius van Driel Netherlands
51 240 Carlos Ortiz Mexico
52 242 Kiradech Aphibarnrat Thailand
53 257 Gavin Green Malaysia
54 261 Gaganjeet Bhullar India
55 269 Nico Echevarría Colombia
56 281 Kris Ventura Norway
57 287 Phachara Khongwatmai Thailand
58 312 Abraham Ancer Mexico
59 338 Marty Dou China
60 343 Fabrizio Zanotti Paraguay

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Tracking the Olympic golf teams by country

Here is a country-by-country look at the 60 participants in the men’s field for golf at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Argentina (2)

  • Emiliano Grillo
  • Alejandro Tosti

Australia (2)

Austria (1)

Belgium (2)

  • Thomas Detry
  • Adrien Dumont du Chassart

Canada (2)

Chile (2)

  • Cristobel Del Solar
  • Joaquin Niemann

China (2)

Chinese Taipei (2)

Colombia (2)

  • Nico Echevarria
  • Camillo Villegas

Denmark (2)

  • Nicolai Hojgaard
  • Thorbjorn Olesen

Finland (1)

France (2)

  • Matthieu Pavon
  • Victor Perez

Germany (2)

  • Stephan Jaeger
  • Matti Schmid

Great Britain (2)

  • Matt Fitzpatrick
  • Tommy Fleetwood

India (2)

  • Gaganjeet Bhullar
  • Shubshankar Sharma

Ireland (2)

Italy (2)

  • Matteo Manassero
  • Guido Migliozzi

Japan (2)

  • Hideki Matsuyama
  • Keita Nakajima

Malaysia (1)

Mexico (2)

  • Abraham Ancer
  • Carlos Ortiz

Netherlands (2)

  • Darius van Driel
  • Joost Luiten

New Zealand (2)

Norway (2)

  • Viktor Hovland
  • Kris Ventura

Paraguay (1)

Poland (1)

Puerto Rico (1)

South Africa (2)

  • Christiaan Bezuidenhout
  • Erik Van Rooyen

South Korea (2)

Spain (2)

Sweden (2)

Thailand (2)

  • Kiradech Aphibarnrat
  • Phachara Khongwatmai

United States (4)

  • Wyndham Clark
  • Collin Morikawa
  • Xander Schauffele
  • Scottie Scheffler
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