USA Golf confirmed its four male selections for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Tuesday, with Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele getting the nod for their country this summer.
According to the Olympic qualification process, The top 15 ranked golfers in the Official World Golf Rankings are eligible to compete in the Games at Le Golf National in August. No more than four players are eligible to compete from a single country.
Players residing outside the top 15 prior to the June 17th deadline are eligible based on Olympic Golf Rankings with a maximum of two eligible players per country.
This form of eligibility comes with a mild disclaimer, however, as it only applies to countries without two or more of their selected players inside the top 15.
Following the U.S Open, the cutoff point on the professional calendar to accrue OWGR points, Scheffler sits at No.1 on the list while Schauffele ranks third, Clark fifth and Morikawa seventh.
Fielding a roster that has the four highest-ranked players among any other competing nation, the United States will be defending their 2020 male title without promising names such as Patrick Cantlay, Brian Harman and Bryson Dechambeau, the latter coming off a second U.S Open title on Sunday.
Prior to Monday’s deadline, DeChambeau ranked 10th in the OWGR, accumulating the majority of his points in 2024 through his successes at major tournaments, with a T6 finish at The Masters bleeding into a runner-up outing at the PGA Championship at Valhalla.
Being that DeChambeau is an active member on the LIV Golf circuit, the two-time U.S Open champ did not receive any points throughout the eight LIV Golf events he appeared in this season, a rule that has sparked a magnitude of discussions since the conception of the Saudi-backed league.
DeChambeau was absent from captain Zach Johnson’s Ryder Cup team in Rome last fall and was outed from the squad by fellow LIV defector Brooks Koepka who claimed his fifth career major in 2023 to earn one of six captain’s picks.
Schauffele and Morikawa competed at the last running of this event at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, with the former blasting an 18-under par score to edge out Slovakia’s Rory Sabbatini by a single stroke to claim gold.
The tournament takes place from Aug. 1-4 in Guyancourt, just over an hour outside the French capital of Paris. The United States enter the 2024 competition with a combined six major championships between them.
