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Ready for the Golf Competitions at the Paris Olympic Games 2024?

  • clairebambino
  • Jul 24, 2024
  • 3 min read

Updated: Nov 11, 2024

🌎⛳️ Golf boasts over 60 million enthusiasts swinging their clubs across more than 30,000 courses worldwide.


🇧🇷 🇯🇵 Golf's Olympic absence stretched back over a century before its resurgence at the 2016 Rio Games in Brazil. After featuring in 1900 and 1904, the sport was contested again at the Tokyo 2020 Games.


At the Olympic Games, golfers compete in stroke play. This format emphasizes completing an 18-hole course in the fewest strokes possible, with a total of 4 rounds played over 4 days. The golfer who accumulates the least number of strokes across all rounds emerges victorious. One of the main concerns surrounding golf’s inclusion in the Olympics is its format. Unlike traditional golf tournaments, the Olympic format (72-hole stroke play with a limited field of 60 players for both the men’s and women’s events) has received criticism for not being representative of the true spirit of golf, which is often played in different formats such as match play or team events.


🇫🇷 For the Paris 2024 Olympics, the golf competition is scheduled to be held during the period of August 1st to the 10th at Le Golf National, a European golfing giant since 1991, renowned for hosting champions and legendary tournaments like the French Open and the Ryder Cup (2018).


⛳️ Some facts & figures about 'Le Golf National':

  • location: West of Paris, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (41km distance from the Olympic Village),

  • 120 players (men's : 1 tournament 60 players / women's : 1 tournament 60 players),

  • capacity: 32,720 people (2,720 seated and 30,000 standing),

  • it took 3 years of dedication to turn this vast, flat expanse (139 hectares) into a remarkable golfing venue. Boasting two 18-hole courses ('L'Albatros' et 'l'Aigle') and a beginner-friendly 7-hole option ('L'Oiselet'), it caters to all skill levels,

  • Golf National champions sustainability. Partnering with France's Ministry of Ecology, they're enhancing environmental practices and preserving the site's heritage,

  • in 2022, the French Golf Federation (FFG) inaugurated a training centre at the Golf National for top-level players and future champions.


🗓 Calendar:

The golf events at the 2024 Olympic Games will begin in the middle of the first Olympic week.


The men's competition runs from Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 August 2024, while the women's tournament takes place from Wednesday 7 to Saturday 10 August 2024.



🏆 Do you know the previous winners of the Olympic Games? 🏌🏾‍♂️🏌🏻‍♀️

There were no golf competitions in the Olympics between 1904 and 2016.

  • 🔥 UPDATE - 🔥 2024 Paris Olympics results:

    • Men's Individual: 🇺🇸 Scottie Scheffler - Age: 28 - Turned Pro in 2018. Double winner at the Masters, in 2022 and 2024, Scottie Scheffler (with a total of -19) finished ahead of Great Britain's Tommy Fleetwood (-18) and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama (-17).

    • Women's Individual: 🇳🇿 Lydia Ko - Age: 27 - Turned Pro in 2013 (age 16). After winning silver in Rio in 2016 and bronze in Tokyo in 2021, Lydia Ko has taken the gold medal in the golf competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.


💡 The Olympic motto actually has two parts!

The original part is "Citius, Altius, Fortius" which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger." This motto emphasizes striving for excellence and achieving personal bests in sports.

In 2021, the International Olympic Committee added "Together" to the motto. So the full motto now reads "Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter" which translates to "Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together." This addition highlights the importance of solidarity and teamwork in the Olympic spirit.



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