For those complaining that golf in the Olympics looks exactly like golf almost every other week of the year, you’ll be happy about a new report. You’ll just probably have to wait another four years to see something different.
Again, though, any new Olympic golf event wouldn’t take place for another four years when Rivieria Country Club plays host. The current format, separate 72-hole stroke-play tournaments for both men and women, is set for the Paris Olympics this summer.
According to Ferguson, details regarding the exact format—four-ball, foursomes and possibly singles—and the number of teams are still being worked out. But the rough plan would be to have a four-day men’s tournament, followed by a couple days of a mixed-team event, followed by a four-day women’s tournament so there would still be individual medals in addition to team ones.
As Ferguson notes, this decision is coming on the heels of December’s Grant Thornton Invitational, the first mixed-team event between the PGA Tour and LPGA since 1999, which was well received by players and fans. Jason Day and Lydia Ko teamed up to win that tournament.
Ko already has a silver and a bronze in two Olympic appearances. However, the reigning men’s and women’s gold medalists both hail from the United States in Xander Schauffele and Nelly Korda.
Schauffele and Korda are on pace to qualify for the Olympics again this summer in Paris. Other current American golfers who would make it to Paris are Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark and Patrick Cantlay on the men’s side and Lilia Vu, Megan Khang and Allisen Corpuz on the women’s side.
The qualifying for Olympic golf is based on the Official World Golf Ranking, which puts LIV golfers at a disadvantage.
After more than a century, golf was added back to the Olympics for the 2016 edition. The 2024 golf portion will be played at Le Golf National, site of the 2018 Ryder Cup, beginning Aug. 1.
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