120 golfers will compete for Olympic gold at Paris 2024

The U.S. Open marked the conclusion of qualifying for men’s golf at the 2024 Olympics – here’s who will be competing in Paris.

The U.S. Open didn’t only signify that we’re three-quarters of the way through men’s Major season for 2024, it also concluded the qualification process for the men’s golf competition at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

Sixty players earned a spot and will battle it out over four rounds at Le Golf National from 1-4 August.

Paris 2024 will mark the third consecutive time the Olympics includes golf after its return to the schedule following a 112-year absence. The 2016 Olympics in Rio saw many players withdraw due to the Zika virus, while Tokyo 2020 was impacted by Covid, so 2024 should be the first time the biggest names are all in attendance.

That said, the Olympic qualifying criteria is designed to ensure players from around the world are represented, including a large portion of the field ranked outside the Official World Golf Rankings top 200, so some big names will miss out.

U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau is probably the biggest of the lot not to be included, due to four Americans being above him in the OWGR. Fellow LIV golfers Cameron Smith and Sergio Garcia have also seen their world rankings drop and will miss out.

How golfers qualify for the Olympics

A total of 120 golfers will participate in the 2024 Olympics — 60 in the men’s competition and 60 in the women’s – the same number as at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Two spots — one in the men’s field and one in the women’s — were set aside for host nation France.

The Olympics uses the OWGR to 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 had nine golfers in the top 15 of the OWGR, but will only take the four highest-ranking members of that group.

Countries that don’t have more than two players inside the top 15 (so every country apart from USA, this time) are permitted two male and two female representatives, provided they fall within the total cutoff size of a 60-player field.

Which golfers are playing at the 2024 Olympics in Paris?

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)

• Corey Conners
• Nick Taylor

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

What about the women’s Olympic golf teams?

The women’s Olympic golf line-up will be finalized on 24 June, after the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. The list of players and country-by-country teams will be added here then.

Who won Olympic golf last time?

Xander Schauffele won gold for America, with Rory Sabbatini picking up silver for Slovakia, and Pan Cheng-tsung securing bronze for Chinese Taipei.

In the women’s Olympic golf, USA’s Nelly Korda took gold, Japan’s Mone Inami won silver, and Lydia Ko bagged a bronze medal for New Zealand.

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About the author

Rob McGarr – Contributing Editor

Rob has been a writer and editor for over 15 years, covering all manner of subjects for leading magazines and websites.

He has previously been Features Editor of Today’s Golfer magazine and Digital Editor of todays-golfer.com, and held roles at FHM, Men’s Running, Golf World, and MAN Magazine.

You can follow him on YouTube where – depending on what day of the week it is – he’ll either be trying his best to get his handicap down to scratch or shoving his clubs in a cupboard, never to be seen again.

Rob is a member at Royal North Devon, England’s oldest golf course, where he plays off a two-handicap.