2024 Paris Olympics at Le Golf National – Preview

As the greatest athletes in the world unite for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the Albatros course at Le Golf National will be the tournament course for the men’s golf competition. This will be the third Olympic tournament for golf since the sport returned to the Olympics in 2016 when British pro, Justin Rose won in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the 2020 games in Tokyo, American Xander Schauffele took gold.

Located just southwest of central Paris, Le Golf National annually hosts the Open de France on the DP World Tour which is the oldest national open in continental Europe. With it already hosting the Ryder Cup in 2018, it will become the first course to have hosted both the Ryder Cup and the Olympics.

As for the course, it’s a Florida-style design with a hint of Irish links and a lot of French flair sprinkled in. Boasting narrow fairways, gnarly rough, tricky green complexes, water on 10 holes, and one of the toughest closing stretches in the world, Le Golf National is a difficult test of golf. The Albatros Course has a hefty slope rating of 155, the highest a course can be given.

Nine combined players from both the American and European Ryder Cup teams in 2018 will be in action at Le Golf National this week. The setup will differ greatly from that event six years ago with three cuts of gradually increasing rough returning for this competition. 27 out of the 60 golfers in the field have also experienced Le Golf National playing in the French Open which is an annual event on the DP World Tour.

The Field

The International Golf Federation (IGF) uses the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR) to create the Olympic Golf Rankings (OGR) as a method of determining eligibility. The top 15 world-ranked players are eligible for the Olympics, with a limit of four players from a given country. Following that, players are eligible based on the world rankings, with a maximum of up to two eligible players from each country that does not already have two or more players among the top 15. This happens until the number of 60 athletes is reached, including continental places.

With only 60 golfers in the tournament combined with the four-player cap per country, only 20 of the top 50 in the world rankings will be in Paris. The four American golfers include Scottie Scheffler (the number one player in the world), Xander Schauffele (the defending Gold medal winner), Wyndham Clark (a first-time Olympian), and Collin Morikawa (who lost in a playoff for the Bronze medal in the 2020 Olympics). Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Viktor Hovland, and Jon Rahm are the other top-10 golfers in the world who are part of the field.

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Finish Position and Strokes Gained Course History (2015-2023)