Paris 2024 Olympic Golf Competition Betting
The best golfers in the world will be teeing it up in Paris, France in the 2024 Summer Olympics. Paris 2024 will host the XXXIII Summer Olympics that will take place from July 26 through August 11, 2024 with the men’s golf competition taking place from Thursday, August 1 through Sunday, August 4. Qualification for the event is based on the World Golf Rankings with the top 15 automatically qualifying and then the highest ranked players from countries that had not already had two qualified players, for a total of 60 players. Golf has only been an Olympic sport three other times and only twice in recent memory. Golf was part of the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 and in 1904 but it was only recently brought back in 2016 and held again in 2021. The 2024 Olympics golf competition will take place from August 1 through August 4. Xander Schauffele from the United States won the gold medal in the last Summer Olympics which was held in Tokyo, Japan in 2021. The Olympic Golf competition will be a 72-hole stroke play tournament with the top player winning the gold medal, second place winning the silver and third place taking the bronze.
Catch all of the action at the 2024 Olympics Golf competition from Thursday, August 1 through Sunday, August 4.
Paris 2024 Olympic Golf at a Glance
Course: Le Golf National, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Par: 72
Course Length: 7,331 yards
Defending Champion: Xander Schauffele (Gold Medal 2021)
The Albatross Courses is the main championship course and it hosts the Open de France on the European Tour. It hosted the Ryder Cup in 2018 and hosted the World Amateur Team Championships in 1994 and 2022.
2024 Paris Olympics Betting Lines
Scottie Scheffler +400
Rory McIlroy +800
Xander Schauffele +900
Collin Morikawa +1200
Ludvig Aberg +1200
Jon Rahm +1300
Tommy Fleetwood +1700
Viktor Hovland +1700
Matthew Fitzpatrick +1900
Hideki Matsuyama +2100
Joaquin Niemann +2300
Tom Kim +2300
Corey Conners +2600
Wyndham Clark +2900
Shane Lowry +3400
Alexander Norén +4100
Carlos Ortiz +4100
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +4100
Sepp Straka +4100
Jason Day +4600
Abraham Ancer +5100
Adrian Meronk +5100
Byeong-Hun An +5100
Matthieu Pavon +5100
Nicolai Hojgaard +5100
Thomas Detry +5100
Woo Lee, Min +5100
Puig, David +6700
Stephan Jäger +6700
Thorbjørn Olesen +6700
Guido Migliozzi +8100
Keita Nakajima +8100
Ryan Fox +8100
Victor Perez +8100
All other players are listed at odds of +10000 or more.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is listed as the favorite to win the gold medal, as he in the midst of an historic season. He has already won six times on the PGA Tour and is starting to be compared to Tiger Woods. There are plenty of other big names who will be challenging Scheffler in France, including defending Olympic gold medal winner, Xander Schauffele who won the PGA Championship in May. Also listed at single-digit odds is Rory McIlroy who has struggled to win majors recently, having not won a major since 2014. Other players listed at odds of less than +2000 are Collin Morikawa, Ludvig Aberg, Jon Rahm, Tommy Fleetwood, Viktor Hovland and Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Olympic Golf Competition Winners (Since 2016)
| YEAR |
GOLD |
SILVER |
BRONZE |
| 2020* |
Xander Schauffele (USA) |
Rory Sabbatini (SVK) |
C.T. Pan (TPE) |
| 2016 |
Justin Rose (GBR) |
Henrik Stenson (SWE) |
Matt Kuchar (USA) |
*Held in 2021
The 2020 Summer Olympics men’s golf event was held from July 29 through August 1 in the year 2021 at the Kasumigaseki Country Club in Tokyo, Japan. A total of 60 golfers from 35 countries competed with Xander Schauffele of the United States winning the gold medal.
The 2016 Summer Olympics for golf was held at the Olympic Golf Course in Barra, Da Tijuca in Brazil. Justin Rose took home the Gold, while Henrik Stenson won the Silver and Matt Kuchar won the Bronze medal.
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