The Netherlands is not going to permit Joost Luiten, Darius Van Driel or Dewi Weber to characterize the nation within the Paris Olympic males’s and ladies’s golf competitions.
Luiten and van Driel earned spots within the males’s match through their positions within the Official World Golf Rating on the cutoff date earlier this month. So did Anne van Dam, the highest-ranked Dutch lady within the girls’s world rankings, and Weber.
However Luiten, van Driel and Weber didn’t meet further nationwide necessities laid out by the Dutch Olympic Committee and Dutch Sports activities Federation (NOC*NSF).
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For the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, the Netherlands set a typical that gamers should be ranked within the prime 100 on the planet or the highest 36 of the Olympic rating to be allowed to compete.
If that continues to be their customary, Luiten fell shy at No. 40 within the Olympic rating and No. 147 on the planet; van Driel is No. 50 and No. 237, respectively.
The nationwide sports activities federation doesn’t imagine that the golfers are prone to end extremely within the Olympic competitors.
“NOC*NSF believes that there’s inadequate motive to deviate from the nationwide standards. In keeping with the sports activities affiliation, no affordable probability of a prime 8 rating within the Olympic Video games has been demonstrated,” the Netherlands Golf Federation mentioned in a press release to the web site Golf.nl.
In 2021, gamers ranked decrease than Luiten gained silver and bronze within the males’s competitors. Rory Sabbatini shot a final-round 61 to win silver, representing Slovakia, and C.T. Pan of Taiwan took dwelling bronze after rising from a seven-man playoff. They have been No. 161 and 181 on the planet rankings on the time of qualification.
The one motive van Dam, the No. 108-ranked lady on the planet, is being allowed to compete is a carveout to the nationwide federation’s guidelines. In keeping with Golf.nl, a participant could be allowed to attend the Olympics in the event that they end within the prime eight of a match with a robust subject, which Anne van Dam did by taking second on the Open de Espana on the Women European Tour.