Which players have qualified for Golf at the Olympics?
Only 120 can make it to Paris, but who is currently qualifying to play golf at the Olympic Games…
2024 is an Olympic year, and with 60 spots to fill, which golf stars will be playing at the Games in Paris this summer?
Golf returned to the Olympic Games programme in 2016, making its first appearance at the Games for 112 years.
Great Britain’s Justin Rose and South Korea’s Inbee Park were the victors in Rio de Janeiro, with the American pairing of Nelly Korda and Xander Schauffele victorious in the postponed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Le Golf National, the host of the 2018 Ryder Cup and several editions of the Open de France on the DP World Tour, will play host at this year’s Olympic Games.
This year’s events will take place in the first two weeks of August. The men’s event will run from August 1-4, with the women’s event taking place from August 7-10.
Golf is also in the Olympic programme for the next two games, through to 2032, which will see medals given out in Los Angeles and Brisbane.
The Riviera Country Club, home of the Genesis Invitational on the PGA Tour, will host the Olympics in 2028. Royal Queensland will be the host venue four years later.
How can golfers qualify for the Games?
Only 120 players will feature at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, with 60 golfers in action in each of the men’s and women’s events.
The list of golfers who play in the Olympic games comes through the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) and the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings (WWGR).
The top 15 players ranked in the OWGR and WWGR will be eligible for the Olympic Games, with a maximum of four players representing each country.
From there, the highest ranked golfers will be eligible to play, with a maximum of two players per nation, until 59 spots are filled in both men’s and women’s draws.
The 60th and final place in the Olympic Games golf events is reserved for host nation France.
The closing date for the Olympic Golf Rankings is June 17 for the men, and June 24 for the women – six weeks prior to their respective competitions in Paris.
The Olympic Golf Standings: Who’s in the top 60? (As of June 17)
Women’s Standings
Key: Rank / (World Ranking) / Name / (Nation)
1 Nelly Korda (United States)
2 Lilia Vu (United States)
3 Jin-Young Ko (Republic of Korea)
4 Ruoning Yin (China)
5 Amy Yang (Republic of Korea)
6 Celine Boutier (France)
7 Hannah Green (Australia)
8 Charley Hull (Great Britain & Northern Ireland)
9 Rose Zhang (USA)
10 Yuka Saso (Japan)
11 Minjee Lee (Australia)
12 Atthaya Thitkul (Thailand)
13 Hyo Joo Kim (Republic of Korea)
14 Brooke Henderson (Canada)
15 Xiyu Lin (China)
16 Lydia Ko (New Zealand)
17 Yamashita Miyu (Japan)
18 Maja Stark (Sweden)
19 Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand)
20 Linn Grant (Sweden)
21 Carlota Ciganda (Spain)
22 Leona Maguire (Ireland)
23 Georgia Hall (Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
24 Ashleigh Buhai (South Africa)
25 Aditi Ashok (India)
26 Gaby Lopez (Mexico)
27 Esther Henseleit (Germany)
28 Alexandra Forsterling (Germany)
29 Albane Valenzuela (Switzerland)
30 Perrine Delacour (France)
31 Emily Kristine Pedersen (Denmark)
32 Chien Pei-Yun (Chinese Taipei)
33 Nanna Koerstz Madsen (Denmark)
34 Anne van Dam (Netherlands)
35 Azahara Munoz (Spain)
36 Bianca Pagdanganan (Phillipines)
37 Morgan Metraux (Switzerland)
38 Stephanie Meadow (Ireland)
39 Manon de Roey (Belgium)
40 Hsu Wei-Ling (Chinese Taipei)
41 Diksha Dagar (India)
42 Emma Spitz (Austria)
43 Shannon Tan (Singapore)
44 Maria Fassi (Mexico)
45 Celine Borge (Norway)
46 Klara Davidson Spilkova (Czech Republic)
47 Paula Reto (South Africa)
48 Mariajo Uribe (Colombia)
49 Alessandra Fanali (Italy)
50 Ashley Lau (Malaysia)
51 Ursula Wikstrom (Finland)
52 Ana Belac (Slovenia)
53 Sara Kouskova (Czechia)
54 Alena Sharp (Canada)
55 Dottie Ardena (Philippines)
56 Noora Komulainen (Finland)
57 Madelene Stavnar (Norway)
58 Ines Laklalech (Morocco)
59. Sarah Schober (Austria)
60 Pia Babnik (Slovenia)
Men’s Standings
1 Scottie Scheffler (USA)
2 Rory McIlroy (Ireland)
3 Xander Schauffele (USA)
4 Ludvig Aberg (Sweden)
5 Wyndham Clark (USA)
6 Viktor Hovland (Norway)
7 Collin Morikawa (USA)
8 Jon Rahm (Spain)
9 Hideki Matsuyama (Japan)
10 Tommy Fleetwood (Great Britain & Northern Ireland)
11 (Matt Fitzpatrick (Great Britain & Northern Ireland)
12 Matthieu Pavon (France)
13 Sepp Straka (Austria)
14 Jason Day (Australia)
15 Tom Kim (Republic of South Korea)
16 Byeong-Hun An (Republic of Korea)
17 Shane Lowry (Ireland)
18 Nick Taylor (Canada)
19 Min Woo Lee (Australia)
20 Corey Conners (Canada)
21 Christiaan Bezuidenhout (South Africa)
22 Stephan Jaeger (Germany)
23 Nicolai Hojgaard (Denmark)
24 Thoms Detry
25 Emiliano Grillo (Argentina)
26 Alex Noren (Sweden)
27 Ryan Fox (New Zealand)
28 Erik van Rooyen (South Africa)
29 Adrian Meronk (Poland)
30 Victor Perez (France)
31 Keita Nakajima (Japan)
32 Thorbjorn Olesen (Denmark)
33 Alejandro Tosti (Argentina)
34 Joaquin Niemann (Chile)
35 Sami Valimaki (Finland)
36 Kevin Yu (Chinese Taipei)
37 David Puig (Spain)
38 Matti Schmid (Germany)
39 C.T. Pan (Chinese Taipei)
40 Carl Yuan (China)
41 Camilo Villegas (Colombia)
42 Matteo Manassero (Italy)
43 Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Belgium)
44 Daniel Hillier (New Zealand)
45 Guido Migliozzi (Italy)
46 Shubhankar Sharma (India)
47 Rafael Campos (Puerto Rico)
48 Carlos Ortiz (Mexico)
49 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Thailand)
50 Gavin Green (Malaysia)
51 Gaganjeet Bhullar (India)
52 Nico Echevarria (Colombia)
53 Mito Pereira (Chile)
54 Kris Ventura (Norway)
55 Phachara Khongwatmai (Thailand)
56 Abraham Ancer (Mexico)
57 Dou Zecheng (China)
58 Fabrizio Zanotti (Paraguay)
59 Joel Girrbach (Switzerland)
60 Tapio Pulkkanen (Finland)
Key: Rank / (World Ranking) / Name / (Nation)
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Matt Coles
Mention a European country, and Matt will tell you which resorts make the National Club Golfer Top 100s: European Resorts list. He might even throw in who designed the golf course and how many rooms the hotel has got at each one…
Matt got into the game of golf from a young age, following his old man to the local golf club. He fell for the sport, and now can’t seem to go a day without thinking about how to improve his game (Thanks Dad!). Matt has been a member of Howley Hall GC in Leeds since 2020, and is just about managing to maintain a single-figure handicap. He likes to remind people that he once broke 75, but won’t tell people that it was on a shortened course during the winter.
He moved to Leeds after graduating from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class Honours degree in Sports Journalism. Matt joined NCG after almost five years travelling the world with the Professional Squash Association, working on events in all four corners of the globe.
Matt currently plays a Cobra King LTDx driver and RadSpeed 3-wood. TaylorMade monopolise the rest of his bag, with a SIM UDI, M5 irons and both Milled Grind and HI-TOE wedges, along with a Monza Redline putter. He uses a Vice Pro Plus golf ball, because he’s a bit different…
Away from golf, Matt is a Manchester United fan, and a keen runner, having ran the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon (his first and possibly last), in May 2023.
