Afrigather Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa will characterize the US within the Olympic males’s golf match in the course of the Paris Video games this summer season. Bryson DeChambeau, who won the U.S. Open on Sunday and completed sixth or higher on the different two majors this yr, won’t be a part of the American crew.
The Olympic males’s golf discipline was decided by Worldwide Golf Federation world rankings as of Monday. The IGF rankings mirror the Official World Golf Ranking, which is compiled by way of a factors system based mostly on efficiency. However the OWGR has declined to assign rating factors to LIV Golf occasions, citing the Saudi-funded breakaway league’s ensures of inclusion for a number of high-profile gamers, its relative lack of annual turnover and its crew match format.
In June 2022, quickly after the inaugural LIV Golf match, the IGF introduced it might not change its qualification system to account for LIV golfers.
“Occasions held in the course of the Olympic qualification interval that don’t meet the factors to earn world rating factors due to this fact don’t contribute to the Olympic rankings,” the IGF said in a statement on the time. “Now we have no plans to switch the qualification system for the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.”
LIV golfers can solely accrue OWGR/IGF rating factors in the event that they qualify for main championships, and most of that circuit’s gamers have plummeted down the rankings since leaving the PGA Tour. However DeChambeau’s sturdy play at golf’s majors — he has the U.S. Open win plus 4 different top-10 finishes since leaving the PGA Tour for LIV — has stored him excessive within the rankings: After his win Sunday at Pinehurst No. 2, he stands tenth.
Nations are restricted to 4 golfers within the 60-player Olympic discipline, and Scheffler (the world’s top-ranked participant), Schauffele (No. 3 and the defending Olympic gold medalist), Clark (No. 5) and Morikawa (No. 7) ranked forward of DeChambeau (as did No. 8 Patrick Cantlay, who additionally didn’t make the American crew regardless of his tie for third on the U.S. Open). Clark, who won last year’s U.S. Open, hasn’t completed higher than a tie for thirty third on the 4 majors since and has didn’t make the minimize in three of his previous six occasions.
“Hopefully, at some point this recreation of golf will get found out and are available again collectively, and I will play [in the Olympics],” DeChambeau said Monday on “The Pat McAfee Present.”
“I’m taking part in nice golf, I’m excited, however finally, yeah, am I pissed off and disillusioned? Positive, you could possibly completely say that,” he continued. “However I made the alternatives that I made, and there’s penalties to that and I respect it.”
LIV Golf gained’t be fully shut out of the Olympics. World No. 9 Jon Rahm and No. 113 David Puig of Spain will likely be in Paris together with No. 73 Adrian Meronk of Poland, No. 99 Joaquín Niemann of Chile and No. 240 Carlos Ortiz and No. 312 Abraham Ancer of Mexico.
The Olympic ladies’s golf discipline will likely be revealed subsequent week after the Girls’s PGA Championship, one of many 5 majors in ladies’s golf.
