The 2024 Males’s Olympic Golf evet might be heading to a playoff.
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The 2024 Males’s Olympic golf occasion has reached its remaining day, with three medals set to be awarded Sunday night at Le Golf Nationwide. However what are the Olympic golf playoff guidelines within the occasion of the tie? It’s a bit of extra sophisticated than common professional golf occasions, however we can assist with the main points. Right here’s what it is advisable learn about a possible Olympic golf playoff in Paris.
Olympic Golf playoff format
The ultimate-round leaderboard on the 2024 Olympics is stacked, with droves of star gamers inside a number of photographs of the lead, together with Xander Schauffele, Jon Rahm, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and extra. On condition that, a playoff is solely doable.
First off, any golf playoff on the 2024 Olympics can be contested throughout three holes at Le Golf Nationwide: the 168-yard, par-3 sixteenth; the 480-yard, par-4 seventeenth; and the 471-yard, par-4 18th.
Not like at a PGA Tour event the place just one winner must be decided in a playoff, the Olympics must determine three winners for gold, silver and bronze medals.
So a number of totally different eventualities might come up. Ought to two gamers be tied for 1st on the finish of regulation, they might compete in a playoff with the winner incomes the gold medal and the loser incomes silver.
If there are three gamers tied for the lead, medals can be awarded primarily based on how they end within the playoff, with third place getting bronze.
However extra sophisticated eventualities exist. For instance, there might be a transparent winner on the finish of the day with a number of gamers tied for second. In that occasion, the winner takes gold and the gamers tied for second would combat in a playoff for silver and bronze.
How would Olympic playoff tie-breaker work?
Ought to any potential playoff nonetheless be undecided on the finish of the primary three playoff holes (16, 17, 18), the remaining gamers would proceed enjoying these holes so as till all medal winners are decided.
Previous Olympic golf playoffs
Regardless of golf having solely rejoined the Olympic Video games in 2016, there has already been an Olympic golf playoff.
It occurred on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. On the finish of regulation Schauffele was alone on the high of the leaderboard because the gold medal winner, and Rory Sabbatini was in solo second, which earned him silver with out a playoff. However there have been a whopping seven gamers tied for third.
These seven gamers — McIlroy, Collin Morikawa and Hideki Matsuyama amongst them — competed in a seven-way playoff, with C.T. Pan finally popping out victorious because the bronze medal winner.
