2024 Men’s Olympic Golf Preview: Everything To Know About Le Golf National

The Men’s Golf competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics is coming soon to Le Golf National in Paris. Find bigger potential golf betting payouts at the best sportsbooks to maximize your wins. Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy, and Xander Schauffele have opened as the favorites in Olympic Golf odds.

The world will be watching as many of the best players in golf will converge to represent their countries at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Having watched the first few days of the Olympics so far, I have to say I’m really looking forward to the parity that comes with the Olympic Men’s Golf competition, as nearly all 32 competing nations have a viable shot to land on the podium this Sunday. Look no further than the previous Summer Olympics, in which Rory Sabbatini from Slovakia and CT Pan from Chinese Taipei claimed Silver and Bronze.

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, some competitors will see a familiar venue in Le Golf National, which is the active site of the Open de France on the DP World Tour and host of the 2018 Ryder Cup. Without further ado, let’s run through the key facts and info about Le Golf National ahead of the 2024 Olympic Men’s Golf competition. Scroll to the bottom for complete outright odds and to compare prices across the best sportsbooks in your state. Click on any PGA TOUR odds to bet now.

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Event Details & Format

It may not be an official PGA TOUR-sanctioned event this week, but the professional golf landscape will bow for the Olympics to take center stage. As per usual, the action will tee off this Thursday, with the standard 72-hole stroke individual stroke play format used to determine a winner this Sunday. In a field of just 60 players, there will be no cut, ensuring four rounds for all competitors.

Since this is the Olympics, however, a playoff may become necessary to ensure three medalists for Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal honors. At the previous Olympics in Japan, a seven-man playoff was needed to determine a Bronze medalist, with CT Pan ultimately prevailing over Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Hideki Matsuyama, Mito Pereira, Paul Casey, and Sebastian Munoz.

Olympic men’s golf field AT A GLANCE

The field is set at just 60 contestants in the 2024 Paris Olympics Men’s Golf competition. The top-15 OWGR players are eligible to compete, with more than four representatives per country permitted. Team USA has hit the maximum quota between Scottie Scheffler (No. 1), Xander Schauffele (No. 2), Wyndham Clark (No. 5), and Collin Morikawa (No. 6). Unfortunately, other Americans in the OWGR top 15, there was no room left for the likes of Patrick, Bryson DeChambeau, Sahith Theegala, Russell Henley, or Brian Harman to compete.

A total of 32 countries will be represented at the 2024 Men’s Olympic games. The full field can be found below:

Field Ranking	OWGR	Golfer	Nation
1	1	Scottie Scheffler	USA
2	2	Rory McIlroy	IRL
3	3	Xander Schauffele	USA
4	4	Ludvig Åberg	SWE
5	5	Wyndham Clark	USA
6	6	Viktor Hovland	NOR
7	7	Collin Morikawa	USA
8	9	Jon Rahm	ESP
9	12	Matsuyama Hideki	JPN
10	13	Tommy Fleetwood	GBR
11	18	Matt Fitzpatrick	GBR
12	20	Matthieu Pavon	FRA
13	21	Sepp Straka	AUT
14	24	Jason Day	AUS
15	26	Kim Joo-hyung (Tom Kim)	KOR
16	27	An Byeonghun	KOR
17	33	Shane Lowry	IRL
18	35	Nick Taylor	CAN
19	36	Min Woo Lee	AUS
20	37	Corey Connors	CAN
21	40	Christiaan Bezuidenhout	RSA
22	42	Stephan Jäger	GER
23	44	Nicolai Højgaard	DEN
24	48	Thomas Detry	BEL
25	52	Emiliano Grillo	ARG
26	55	Alex Noren	SWE
27	59	Ryan Fox	NZL
28	67	Erik van Rooyen	RSA
29	73	Adrian Meronk	POL
30	78	Victor Perez	FRA
31	83	Nakajima Keita	JPN
32	85	Thorbjørn Olesen	DEN
33	98	Alejandro Tosti	ARG
34	99	Joaquín Niemann	CHI
35	100	Sami Valimaki	FIN
36	108	Yu Chun-An (Kevin Yu)	TPE
37	113	David Puig	ESP
38	134	Matti Schmid	GER
39	140	Pan Cheng-Tsung (C.T. Pan)	TPE
40	147	Joost Luiten	NED
41	155	Yuan Yechun (Carl Yuan)	CHN
42	177	Camilo Villegas	COL
43	180	Matteo Manassero	ITA
44	187	Adrien Dumont de Chassart	BEL
45	190	Daniel Hillier	NZL
46	195	Cristóbal Del Solar	CHI
47	198	Guido Migliozzi	ITA
48	219	Shubshankar Sharma	IND
49	221	Rafael Campos	PUR
50	237	Darius van Driel	NED
51	240	Carlos Ortiz	MEX
52	242	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	THA
53	257	Gavin Green	MAS
54	261	Gaganjeet Bhullar	IND
55	269	Nico Echevarría	COL
56	281	Kris Ventura	NOR
57	287	Phachara Khongwatmai	THA
58	312	Abraham Ancer	MEX
59	338	Dou Zecheng	CHN
60	343	Fabrizio Zanotti	PAR

These Olympic games cast a light on what was already a very evident flaw in the OWGR as a universal ranking of the best players in the world since the game of golf has become fragmented by the LIV Tour. The OWGR’s 2-year look back window has allowed Wyndham Clark to maintain his OWGR top-5 ranking on the merit of his standout 2023 season. However anyone watching golf in 2024 would agree Bryson DeChambeau is a top-4 American golfer at present and would seem far more deserving.

Other notable snubs from the Olympic games include World No. 17 Robert MacIntyre, who was bumped by Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick to represent all of Great Britain, despite currently being ranked ahead of Fitzpatrick according to OWGR since winning the Scottish Open after the qualification window had closed. Cameron Smith has been surpassed by his country mates Jason Day and Min Woo Lee. Louis Oosthuizen and Dean Burmester have been the two best South African golfers this year, however without earning OWGR points on LIV, it will instead be Christiaan Bezuidenhout and Erik van Rooyen who represent South Africa.

Since golf’s return to the Olympic stage at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Xander Schauffele (2020 Gold) and CT Pan (2020 Bronze) are the only prior medalists returning to add to their collection. None of the 2016 medalists (Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson, Matt Kuchar) have qualified for the 2024 competition, and 2020 Silver medalists, Rory Sabbatini will not return to Paris.

Le golf national course specs

• Yards: 7,174
• Par: 71 (4x 3s / 11x 4s / 3x 5s)
• Greens: Meadowgrass and Bentgrass blend
• Architect: Hubert Chesneau
• Comp Courses: Harbor Town Golf Links, TPC Sawgrass, Sedgefield CC, Royal Troon, Valderrama, Kasumigaseki CC, St. George’s Golf & Country Club, Oakdale Golf & Country Club, Waialae CC
• Past French Open Winners at Le Golf National: Ryo Hisatsune -14 (’23), Guido Migliozzi -16 (’22), Nicolas Colsaerts -12 (’19), Alex Noren -7 (’18), Tommy Fleetwood -12 (’17)
• Hole-by-hole Breakdown:

INTRODUCTION To le golf national

Owned by the French Golf Federation, Le Golf National is France’s signature tournament golf venue, and made for a very easy selection to host the 2024 Paris Olympics Men’s Golf Competition. With multiple course routings on property, the 2024 Olympics will feature the familiar “Albatros” course routing, which has been used for all prior professional tournaments hosted at Le Golf National.

A Familiar Host

Those keen to follow the DP World Tour will have great familiarity with Le Golf National, current host of the Cazoo Open de France. Guido Migliozzi, Tommy Fleetwood and Alex Noren, representing Italy, Great Britain and Sweden this week, are past winners at Le Golf National. Tom Kim, Thorbjorn Olesen, Jon Rahm, and Thomas Detry each have a top-10 finish to their names at the Cazoo Open de France over the last five years.

Those less in tune with the DP World Tour will recognize Le Golf National as the host of the 2018 Ryder Cup. Team Europe shocked the Americans with a 17.5-10.5 beatdown. In 2018, Le Golf National was strategically chosen to combat the American’s significant distance advantage and instead reward accuracy off-the-tee with significantly pinched fairways and over-grown rough. The course superintendent at Le Golf National has already confirmed we will not see anything near as diabolical of a set up at the 2024 games, with the goal of posing a fair test for both the Men’s and Women’s competitions.

None of the four representatives of Team USA were here for the 2018 Ryder Cup, however five representatives from the victorious European squad will be back with fond memories to draw from in 2024. That list includes Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm, Rory McIlroy, Alex Noren, and Thorbjorn Olesen.

Breaking Down Le Golf National

Le Golf National is a fantastic championship golf course which has produced great drama in recent years between the Open de France and Ryder Cup competitions. Standing as a 7,174-yard par-71, the course has stood its ground as a stern test of all-around golf despite its lack of imposing distance on the scorecard. The layout features water hazards in play on 13 of 18 holes with narrow landing areas off-the-tee, placing heightened importance on accuracy off-the-tee and precision with middle irons on approach.

For its Olympic Men’s Golf routing, Le Golf National will feature a concentration of seven par-4s in the 375-450 range. The course lacks any behemoths where driving distance would otherwise prove to be advantageous, truly opening up the stage for in-form ball strikers to contend, regardless of their distance off-the-tee.

Le Golf National made headlines for its borderline unfair conditions at the 2018 Ryder Cup, in which fairways were pinched to 15 yards wide on average, and rough was grown out to nearly unplayable lengths. Conditions are more likely to fall in line with the Open de France’s setup, however, which still features narrow fairways and moderately thick rough closely surrounding them. Using the Open de France as a more predictive barometer for scoring this week, the winning tally has ranged from -7 to -16 over the last five years. That far from the birdie-fest conditions we’ve grown accustomed to seeing on the PGA TOUR in recent weeks, so Scrambling and Bogey Avoidance will be key stats to consider in Paris this week.

Event History COURSE COMPS

The Olympics means much more to some countries and nations than others. With a mandatory military service exemption at stake for South Korean, pressure may be at an all time high for Byeong Hun An and Tom Kim this week. Conversely, we’ve seen players like Rory McIlroy speak out about their lack of patriotism when representing Ireland and Northern Ireland as a whole. Golfers have always sought to peak for the four Major tournaments each year, however the opportunity to represent your country at the Olympics creates a brand new level of pressure which has led to compelling drama since golf returned to the Olympic games in 2016.

Course Comps

In the simplest terms, Le Golf National is a short yet challenging positional venue which rewards accuracy off-the-tee, elite iron play, and crafty touch from the thick rough surrounding these Bentgrass greens.

It’s not easy to find a direct one-to-one comp course in referencing the usual stateside venues on the PGA TOUR, but a look north may prove to be the better indicator. Recent RBC Canadian Open venues Hamilton Golf & Country Club, St. George’s Golf & Country Club, and Oakdale Golf & Country Club each feature moderately challenging scoring conditions with an emphasis on Driving Accuracy and similar Bentgrass agronomy.

Though very different from an agronomy standpoint, Harbour Town GL, TPC Sawgrass, Waialae CC, and Sedgefield CC would each seem to place the same emphasis on precise ball-striking with water hazards constantly looming throughout.

On a secondary basis, I’m also looking to reference performance at Royal Troon, Valderrama, and Kasumigaseki CC as reference for performance on difficult, positional venues internationally.

Wrap that all together, and the top 10 players in comp course history are: Scottie Scheffler, Matt Fitzpatrick, Ludvig Aberg, Rory McIlroy, Tom Kim, Joaquin Niemann, Victor Perez, Ryan Fox, Tommy Fleetwood, and Hideki Matsuyama.

KEY STATS TO CONSIDER WITH Olympic Men’s golf ODDS

• SG: APP / Prox: 100-200
• Driving Accuracy / Good Drives Gained
• SG: OTT / SG: OTT (<7,200-yard Courses)
• Bogey Avoidance
• SG: ARG / Scrambling Gained / Sand Saves
• SG: Putting (Total) / SG: P (Bent)
• Comp Course History

A field of just 60 players requires far less of a fine-toothed comb to sift through. Considering a majority of this field has not played in the stakes of Olympics competition or on Le Golf National before, there’s only so much predictiveness we can expect from the data this week. With that said, the 2018 Ryder Cup and Cazoo Open de France have continued to show an advantage for accurate ball-strikers, which is a stance I will take when handicapping 2024 Men’s Olympic Golf odds.

In terms of accuracy off-the-tee, the top-10 in this field are: Collin Morikawa, Sepp Straka, Tommy Fleetwood, Scottie Scheffler, Tom Kim, Shane Lowry, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Ludvig Aberg, and CT Pan.

With water hazards threatening on 13 of the 18 holes, approach play will be crucial to separate under the pressure of representing each player’s country. The top-10 players in terms of SG: APP leading in are: Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Sepp Straka, Ludvig Aberg, Corey Conners, Kevin Yu, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Shane Lowry, and Tommy Fleetwood. Refining more closely to the key proximity range of 100-200 yards at Le Golf National, the top-10 are: Byeong Hun An, Scottie Scheffler, Adrian Meronk, Jon Rahm, CT Pan, Stephan Jaeger, Erik van Rooyen, Wyndham Clark, Matthieu Pavon, and Viktor Hovland.

Sifting through this field of just 60 players, I find it’s most crucial to rank above-average in terms of Driving Accuracy, SG: Approach, Prox: 100-200, and SG: ARG. Just five players meet that criteria this week: Scottie Scheffler, Ludvig Aberg, Hideki Matsuyama, CT Pan, and Tommy Fleetwood.

2024 Olympic men’s golf ODDS: DFS PLAYER POOL

With all the course-fit profiles in mind, I’m leaning early toward the player pool below. Naturally, I’m looking their way in the 2024 Olympic Men’s Golf odds as well. I’ve broken the list down by projected pricing/odds tier for DraftKings.  

UNDERDOG GOLF DRAFT RANKINGS TIERS

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Tier 1

Scottie Scheffler
Xander Schauffele
Collin Morikawa
Ludvig Aberg

Tier 2

Tommy Fleetwood
Tom Kim
Shane Lowry
Hideki Matsuyama

Tier 3

Sepp Straka
Thomas Detry
Matthieu Pavon
Alex Noren

Tier 4

Keita Nakajima
Mito Pereira
Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Tier 5

Guido Migliozzi
Nick Taylor
Emiliano Grillo

2024 Olympic Men’s Golf Odds Model Breakdown

In my model, I’m emphasizing SG: APP, SG: OTT, Driving Accuracy, SG: ARG, and Weighted Putting followed by a balanced mix of Prox: 100-200, Bogey Avoidance, Scrambling Gained, Good Drives Gained, and Comp Course History.

Olympic Men’s Golf Odds: Model Favorites

Unsurprisingly, it’s world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler who comes out on top of the model. Ranking No. 1 in SG: OTT, SG: ARG, SG: APP, and Bogey Avoidance, it’s tough to argue against Scheffler’s chances to add on to what is already a historically great 2024 season. The odds agree with Scheffler as the prohibitive favorite, but with the uncertainty that comes with the Olympics golf competition, I’m less intimidated by Scheffler as I’ve felt most other weeks on the PGA TOUR.

After Scheffler, the rest of my model’s top 10 rounds out with: Collin Morikawa, Rory McIlroy, Ludvig Aberg, Xander Schauffele, Tommy Fleetwood, Tom Kim, Hideki Matsuyama, Corey Conners, and Alex Noren.

Not expecting to see much value in a very top-heavy field of just 60 players, my expectations are set for a card of just two or three players in the second tier range of Olympic Men’s Golf odds. I’ve got my eyes set on Shane Lowry, Tommy Fleetwood, and Matthieu Pavon, but I will ultimately chase the best value when the odds release on Monday. Check back in later this week for more updates.

Best of luck navigating the 2024 Olympic Men’s Golf odds!

How to Watch 2024 Olympic Men’s Golf

Thursday, August 1 – Round 1

3 a.m. – 7 a.m., GOLF Channel, Peacock (streaming)
7 a.m. – Noon, Peacock (streaming)

Friday, August 2 – Round 2

3 a.m. – 7 a.m., GOLF Channel, Peacock (streaming)
7 a.m. – Noon, Peacock (streaming)

Saturday, August 3 – Round 3

3 a.m. – 7 a.m., GOLF Channel, Peacock (streaming)
7 a.m. – Noon, Peacock (streaming)

Sunday, August 4 – Round 4

3 a.m. – 7 a.m., GOLF Channel, Peacock (streaming)
7 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., USA Network, Peacock (streaming)

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