World primary Scottie Scheffler will lead a heavyweight U.S. presence on the males’s 2024 Olympics golf in a quartet that includes defending champion Xander Schauffele and two-time main winner Collin Morikawa who squeezed by way of the qualifying race.
America was the one nation to clinch the utmost doable 4 spots within the 60-strong listing unveiled on Tuesday by the Worldwide Golf Federation for the boys’s contest on August 1-4 at Le Golf Nationwide, the venue south of Paris that hosted the Ryder Cup in 2018.
The U.S. contingent additionally contains Wyndham Clark, final yr’s U.S. Open champion, however not Patrick Cantlay, whose tied-third end on Sunday at this yr’s U.S. Open was simply in need of the top-two place he wanted to pip Morikawa on the earth rankings used to determine the Olympics listing.
The newly topped 2024 U.S. Open winner, Bryson DeChambeau, missed out on the U.S. staff too. That illustrates how the appearance of the Saudi-backed LIV tour, on which DeChambeau performs however that yields no rating factors, influenced the race for Paris.
World quantity two Rory McIlroy leads the pack of non-U.S. contenders for Olympic glory, although the video games weren’t on his thoughts on Monday because the Northern Irishman introduced he was taking a couple of weeks off to digest his late collapse on the U.S. Open that extended his decade-long await a fifth main.
McIlroy, who represents Eire, was near a medal in Tokyo however got here up quick in a seven-way playoff for third place during which Morikawa additionally misplaced out.
Tokyo bronze medallist C.T. Pan of Taiwan might be again together with defending champion Schauffele. The 2021 runner-up, South African-born Rory Sabbatini who competed for Slovakia in Tokyo, won’t be in Paris.
Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, the top-ranked Asian participant, may have one other shot at an Olympic podium after leaving residence followers upset in Tokyo when he ended tied-fourth.
France’s hopes of a medal on residence soil have been boosted by a breakthrough yr for Matthieu Pavon, whose fifth place on the U.S. Open lifted him to a career-high twentieth on the earth rankings.
Pavon will symbolize France alongside Victor Perez.
The qualification listing for the ladies’s golf occasion in Paris, which takes place on August 7-10, might be revealed subsequent Tuesday.
Finalised lists of individuals for each the boys’s and girls’s competitions might be launched on July 2.