Olympics 2024: Nelly Korda headlines stacked Group USA

The Olympic Ladies’s Golf Competitors formally has a area of 60 individuals with the most recent replace of the Rolex Rankings.

They’ll play at Le Golf Nationwide in Paris, the location of the 2018 Ryder Cup, from Aug. 7 to 10.

Two gamers from every nation can qualify until they rank inside the highest 15 within the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR). A most of 4 gamers from every nation are eligible.

Every match has a power of area score for the Olympic Golf Rankings primarily based on the standard of gamers throughout the area, just like the OWGR.

That determines the factors awarded at an occasion, that are then allotted to the gamers primarily based on the place they end. Higher performances in stronger occasions result in extra factors.

Group USA has three of the highest 10 gamers: No. 1 Nelly Korda, No. 2 Lilia Vu, and No. 9 Rose Zhang. Korda has six wins on the season, together with 5 straight. Nonetheless, Korda missed the lower in her final three begins.

She gained the gold medal by one stroke within the 2020 Olympic Video games in Tokyo over silver medalist Mone Inami and bronze medalist Lydia Ko. Can she win her second gold in Paris or get on the rostrum?

South Korea will even have three Olympians after Amy Yang gained the KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship on Sunday. She is going to be a part of Jin Younger Ko and Hyo Joo Kim in Paris.

Yang’s addition to South Korea’s Olympic staff dropped Morocco’s Ines Laklalech, at No. 321, out of the competitors.

Charley Hull and Georgia Corridor will characterize Nice Britain, whereas Ko appears to be like to get again on the rostrum for New Zealand. Australian golfer Hannah Inexperienced can be again within the Olympics after tying for fifth in Tokyo.

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The person groups and the individuals on every comply with under, with their present world rating in parentheses.

United States

Nelly Korda (1)
Lilia Vu (2)
Rose Zhang (9)

South Korea

Jin Younger Ko (3)
Amy Yang (5)
Hyo-Joo Kim (13)

China

Ruoning Yin (4)
Xiyu Lin (15)

France

Celine Boutier (6)
Perrine Delacour (75)

Australia

Hannah Inexperienced (7)
Minjee Lee (11)

Nice Britain

Charley Hull (8)
Georgia Corridor (36)

Japan

Yuka Saso (10)
Miyu Yamashita (19)

Thailand

Atthaya Thitikul (12)
Patty Tavatanakit (25)

Canada

Brooke M. Henderson (14)
Alena Sharp (292)

New Zealand

Lydia Ko (17)
Momoka Kobori (293)

Sweden

Maja Stark (21)
Linn Grant (26)

Spain

Carlota Ciganda (30)
Azahara Munoz (109)

Leona Maguire (32)
Stephanie Meadow (134)

South Africa

Ashleigh Buhai (41)
Paula Reto (196)

India

Aditi Ashok (60)
Diksha Dagar (167)

Mexico

Gaby Lopez (62)
Maria Fassi (186)

Germany

Esther Henseleit (64)
Alexandra Forsterling (69)

Switzerland

Albane Valenzuela (70)
Morgane Metraux (127)

Scotland

Gemma Dryburgh (79)

Denmark

Emily Kristine Pedersen (87)
Nanna Koerstz Madsen (106)

Taiwan

Peiyun Chien (88)
Wei-Ling Hsu (161)

Netherlands

Anne van Dam (108)
Dewi Weber (302)

Philippines

Bianca Pagdanganan (113)
Dottie Ardina (298)

Belgium

Manon de Roey (154)

Austria

Emma Spitz (178)

Singapore

Shannon Tan (181)

Norway

Celine Borge (187)
Madelene Stavnar (307)

Czech Republic

Klara Davidson Spilkova (192)
Sara Kouskova (290)

Colombia

Mariajo Uribe (198)

Italy

Alessandra Fanali (211)

Malaysia

Ashley Lau (279)

Finland

Ursula Wikstrom (286)
Noora Komulainen (301)

Slovakia

Ana Belac (288)

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