Golf at Paris 2024: 200 days to go until France plays host at Olympic Games

With less than 200 days to go now until the golf competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games begin, we look at everything you need to know before Le Golf National plays host this summer.

Golf will be one of 32 sports to feature in Paris 2024, the third consecutive Summer Games it has been part of following its Olympic reinstatement in 2009.

Here is everything you need to know, including where and when the competition will be held, how players qualify and who are the current Olympic golf gold medallists.

When does golf at the 2024 Olympic Games take place?

The Games will be staged from July 26 to August 11.

The men’s Olympic golf event is set to take place from August 1-4, with the women’s tournament being staged from August 7-10.

Where will the golf events be staged?

Both events will be played at Le Golf National, a European Tour Destinations member venue, located in Guyancourt on the outskirts of Paris.

The Albatros course previously staged the 2018 Ryder Cup and has been a long-serving host of the Open de France on the DP World Tour.

How many golfers will compete at the 2024 Olympics?

There will be 120 athletes competing in the golf competition of Paris 2024, 60 in each of the men’s and women’s events, which is exactly the same amount as Tokyo 2020.

The host nation France will secure two quota places, one per gender. The other 118 quota places (59 per gender) will be decided by the Olympic Golf Ranking (OGR).

What is the format for the 2024 Olympic golf events?

Players in both the men’s and women’s events will play a 72-hole strokeplay competition across four days, with gold, silver and bronze medals awarded for each of the top three finishers.

There is no cut and in the event of a tie for any of the medals, a sudden death play-off will take place to determine the medallists.

How do players qualify for Paris 2024?

Each event will comprise 60-player fields with golfers qualifying based on the official International Golf Federation (IGF) world ranking list published on June 17, 2024 for men and June 24, 2024 for women.

The top 15 players will all qualify automatically (maximum of four per National Olympic Committee (NOC).

Beyond the top 15, players will be eligible based on the world rankings, with a maximum of two eligible players from each country that does not already have two or more players among the top 15.

The OGR is calculated every Monday following completion of the previous week’s tournaments

Points are awarded to athletes based on their final positions in each ranking event, with performances in events with stronger fields earning more points, in accordance with a points distribution schedule approved by the IGF. The OGR is ordered according to the average points that athletes manage to accumulate over a two-year qualifying period.

Who is currently in line to qualify for Paris 2024?

As it stands, a total of 60 golfers from 32 countries are in line to qualify for the men's event at the Olympics in 2024. The USA have the most qualified players with four players inside the top ten in the OWGR.

*Table correct as of 08/01/2024

Who are the reigning Olympic golf champions?

It was a Team USA double at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, postponed by a year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Xander Schauffele and Nelly Korda won the gold medals, in the men's and women's competitions respectively.