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Golf in Rio Olympics: What you need to know
- Updated: April 27, 2016
The Olympics are 100 days away. Of course, there are three majors (or four, if you include the Players Championship), a WGC event and probably a Tiger Woods return to squeeze in before the Olympics. But still, the Olympics are only 100 days away.
In case you need a reminder, here’s how qualifying for the Olympics works for golfers.
The IOC has restricted the IGF to an Olympic field of 60 players for each of the men’s and women’s competition. The IGF will utilise the official world golf rankings to create the Olympic golf rankings as a method of determining eligibility. The top-15 world-ranked players will be eligible for the Olympics, with a limit of four players from a given country. Beyond the top-15, players will be eligible based on the world rankings, with a maximum of two eligible players from each country that does not already have two or more players among the top-15.
Basically, a couple of countries will get four players in. The other good countries will get two. Then it gets dark as players like …
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