The Opening Ceremony for the Paris Olympic Games is one year away, with the men’s golf competition running Aug. 1-4, 2024, at Le Golf National, site of the 2018 Ryder Cup.
The field will feature a total of 60 players based on an Olympic Golf Ranking, which utilizes the Official World Golf Ranking. There is a limit of four players per country, among those inside the top 15 in the standings. Outside of the top 15, countries are allotted a maximum of two players (with the host country, France, guaranteed one spot).
Here are the current standings, as of the week of July 24, 2023. The United States is the only country with four projected qualifiers, while a total of 33 countries are currently represented (click here for the women’s standings).
Olympic Rank | OWGR | Player | Country |
1 | 1 | Scottie Scheffler | USA |
2 | 2 | Rory McIlroy | IRL |
3 | 3 | Jon Rahm | ESP |
4 | 4 | Patrick Cantlay | USA |
5 | 5 | Viktor Hovland | NOR |
6 | 6 | Xander Schauffele | USA |
7 | 7 | Max Homa | USA |
8 | 8 | Cameron Smith | AUS |
9 | 9 | Matt Fitzpatrick | GBR |
10 | 13 | Tyrrell Hatton | GBR |
11 | 17 | Tom Kim | KOR |
12 | 21 | Jason Day | AUS |
13 | 25 | Sepp Straka | AUT |
14 | 27 | Sungjae Im | KOR |
15 | 29 | Hideki Matsuyama | JPN |
16 | 30 | Corey Conners | CAN |
17 | 31 | Shane Lowry | IRL |
18 | 36 | Emiliano Grillo | ARG |
19 | 40 | Ryan Fox | NZL |
20 | 43 | Joaquin Niemann | CHI |
21 | 44 | Nick Taylor | CAN |
22 | 48 | Adrian Meronk | POL |
23 | 61 | Pablo Larrazabal | ESP |
24 | 62 | Mito Pereira | CHI |
25 | 63 | Alex Noren | SWE |
26 | 65 | Victor Perez | FRA |
27 | 68 | Abraham Ancer | MEX |
28 | 73 | Thomas Pieters | BEL |
29 | 80 | Thomas Detry | BEL |
30 | 91 | Thriston Lawrence | RSA |
31 | 93 | Christiaan Bezuidenhout | RSA |
32 | 94 | Rasmus Hojgaard | DEN |
33 | 97 | Alexander Björk | SWE |
34 | 98 | Thorbjørn Olesen | DEN |
35 | 103 | Yannik Paul | GER |
36 | 105 | Stephan Jaeger | GER |
37 | 120 | Romain Langasque | FRA |
38 | 126 | Kazuki Higa | JPN |
39 | 132 | Sadom Kaewkanjana | THA |
40 | 137 | Sebastián Muñoz | COL |
41 | 138 | Anirban Lahiri | IND |
42 | 140 | Daniel Hillier | NZL |
43 | 144 | C.T. Pan | TPE |
44 | 146 | Joost Luiten | NED |
45 | 158 | Carl Yuan | CHN |
46 | 159 | Alejandro Tosti | ARG |
47 | 165 | Shubhankar Sharma | IND |
48 | 168 | Francesco Molinari | ITA |
49 | 171 | Zecheng Dou | CHN |
50 | 175 | Kevin Yu | TPE |
51 | 183 | Scott Vincent | ZIM |
52 | 196 | Gavin Green | MAS |
53 | 216 | Sami Valimaki | FIN |
54 | 220 | Guido Migliozzi | ITA |
55 | 255 | Phachara Khongwatmai | THA |
56 | 263 | Jhonattan Vegas | VEN |
57 | 271 | Kalle Samooja | FIN |
58 | 278 | Kristian Johannessen | NOR |
59 | 306 | Fabrizio Zanotti | PAR |
60 | 322 | Nico Echavarria | COL |
