Europe rules in the 60 golfers that the IGF sends to the Olympic Games
JM González
June 19, 2024

The list is closed. The International Golf Federation announced the 60 golfers who will compete for gold at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Places that were distributed according to the Olympic ranking among 32 countries, whose competitors will try to get to the top of the podium in the most anticipated sporting event of the year.

The final list was closed on June 17 and a day later the IGF made it public and official. The United States is the only country that will have four representatives, with interesting names such as Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa.

In the summary of the classification by continents, Africa will have two qualifiers, Asia with 13, Australia and Oceania with four, North America with eight, South America with another eight, while Europe will be the most represented with 25 competitors who will arrive from 14 different countries . .

The American Schauffele will have the opportunity to revalidate the gold he obtained in Tokyo 2020. From that podium, the big absence in Paris will be the silver medalist Rory Sabbatini (Slovakia). Meanwhile, who won bronze in the event in Japan, Pan Cheng-Tsung from Chinese Taipei will also be present in the upcoming Olympic Games.

And if we talk about the Olympic ranking, Scottie Scheffler, winner of the 2024 Augusta Masters, was the one who led it after what was done on the PGA Tour. Irish legend Rory McIlroy was the second to qualify for Paris.

There could be news, yes, in the final list. In fact, Chile has already confirmed that Cristóbal del Solar, 46th in the Olympic ranking, will prioritize his attempt to enter the PGA Tour as a permanent member to the detriment of Paris. His place will be taken by Guillermo Pereira, who will be the representative of the South American country along with Joaquín Niemann, who today shines in LIV Golf and who was once number one in the world at the youth level.

For its part, the women’s ranking will be announced at the end of this week, when the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship concludes. National committees have until June 27 to confirm their competitors.

Check the complete ranking here.

It will be the fifth time that golf is part of the Olympic Games program. Before Paris, it did so in 1900, 1904, 2016 and 2020. In 2024, the men’s and women’s competitions will be held at Le Golf National, created in 1991 under the auspices of the French Golf Federation.

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