A view of the Albatros course at Le Golf Nationwide exterior of Paris, which is able to host the boys’s and girls’s competitions.
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In case you are searching for a PGA Tour occasion this week, you gained’t discover it. The Tour is off — and so is LIV Golf — as a few of the high males’s golfers on the earth will tee it up on the 2024 Paris Olympics. (The ladies get underway subsequent week.) Right here’s what it’s good to know.
The historical past
That is the third-straight yr the Olympic Video games have featured golf, which was truly an Olympic sport again in 1900 and 1904. Then the game waited 112 quick years earlier than reappearing in 2016.
The format
Straightforward. Sixty gamers certified for the Olympics, and it’s 4 rounds of stroke play. The event begins on Thursday and ends on Sunday.
The qualifying
The highest 15 gamers within the Official World Golf Rating routinely qualify for the Video games, though that group is restricted to 4 per nation (which is why U.S. Open winner Bryson DeChambeau, for instance, isn’t within the discipline). After that, the highest two golfers from every nation are chosen till the sphere reaches 60.
The previous winners
On the 2016 Video games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Justin Rose (Nice Britain) gained gold, Henrik Stenson (Sweden) took silver and Matt Kuchar (USA) was the bronze medalist. On the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — which had been truly held in 2021 — Xander Schauffele (USA) gained gold, Rory Sabbatini (Slovakia) took silver and C.T. Pan (Chinese language Taipei) gained bronze.
The American gamers
Scottie Scheffler, Schauffele, Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark make up the 4 American males’s gamers. Scheffler is the betting favourite, carefully adopted by Schauffele, who gained gold on the final Olympics and gained the Open Championship two weeks in the past.
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The opposite stars
Jon Rahm (Spain), Rory McIlroy (Eire), Viktor Hovland (Norway) and Hideki Mastsuyama (Japan) are just a few of the opposite big-name gamers who certified. You may see the full discipline right here. McIlroy was one among a number of execs who skipped golf’s return to the Olympics in 2016 attributable to issues over the Zika virus, however he returned in Tokyo and was one of many seven gamers who competed in a playoff for the bronze medal, which was finally gained by C.T. Pan.
Is Tiger Woods taking part in?
No.
The LIV gamers
Seven LIV golfers are within the discipline, a listing headlined by Rahm, who picked up his first LIV victory on Sunday, and Joaquin Niemann (Chile).
The course
If the Albatros course at Le Golf Nationwide exterior of Paris appears to be like acquainted, that’s as a result of it ought to. It’s long-hosted the DP World Tour’s Open de France, and in 2018 it was the venue for the Ryder Cup, when the Europeans beat the Individuals 17.5 to 10.5.
How one can watch it
In case you are within the States — get up early! The motion begins at 3 a.m. ET on Thursday by Sunday on Golf Channel. The ultimate spherical will even replay at 2 p.m. ET on Sunday on USA Community. It could additionally all be streamed on Peacock.
