Group USA walks alongside the Olympic rings throughout the males’s competitors in 2021.
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Golf followers who watched Bryson DeChambeau triumph on the U.S. Open over the weekend have been as soon as once more made conscious of his {golfing} brilliance. They have been additionally made nicely conscious that that is an Olympics yr, with the NBC broadcast selling the worldwide athletics competitors the community may also distribute to the world subsequent month.
Coincidentally, DeChambeau’s conquest of Pinehurst No. 2 pushed him proper as much as the sting of qualifying for the Olympics, which will likely be held in Paris. However with the qualifying interval wrapping up as soon as DeChambeau tapped in for a successful par Sunday evening, the American who received america Open will not be representing Group USA within the thirty third Olympiad. The explanation: he hasn’t performed sufficient 72-hole tournaments.
America will ship 4 male golfers to France on the finish of July — Scottie Scheffler (the perfect participant on the planet), Xander Schauffele (the defending Gold medal winner), Wyndham Clark (a first-time Olympian) and Collin Morikawa (who misplaced in a playoff for the Bronze medal within the 2020 Olympics). On the ladies’s facet, there’s yet another week of qualifying, however Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu and Rose Zhang are already locked in to symbolize Group USA.
The qualification system for the Olympics immediately mimics the Official World Golf Rating, which is a mirrored image of the final two years {of professional} golf tournaments held across the globe. International locations are allowed a most of two golfers within the discipline, except gamers are ranked within the prime 15. For a golf-rich nation like America, a most of 4 golfers can qualify, as long as they’re ranked within the prime 15 of the OWGR. On the finish of the U.S. Open, a surprising NINE Individuals have been ranked within the prime 15, DeChambeau amongst them.
However finally he ranks sixth out of that group, narrowly falling behind Patrick Cantlay and the final man in, Morikawa. That’s the place an oz of controversy reigns.
DeChambeau performs nearly all of his tournaments on LIV Golf, which hosts 54-hole occasions that don’t qualify for OWGR factors. Why LIV occasions don’t advantage OWGR factors has been an ongoing saga for the final two years, for the reason that breakaway golf league launched. However primarily, each week DeChambeau tees it up on LIV Golf (this week included!) is an empty week in his OWGR rating resume, whether or not he wins or finishes useless final. So regardless of DataGolf (which incorporates LIV tournaments) rating him No. 6 on the planet — and the fourth-best American — the OWGR ranks him tenth, behind 5 fellow Individuals and out of doors the Olympics reduce.
DeChambeau’s most loyal followers, enlivened by his current kind — which additionally included a solo 2nd-place end on the PGA and a personal-best T6 on the Masters — need him within the Olympics. And DeChambeau needs in, too. However even he is aware of that guidelines are guidelines and his choice to affix LIV put Olympic qualification in jeopardy.
“Hopefully in the future this sport of golf will get discovered and are available again collectively and I can play [in the Olympics],” DeChambeau mentioned Monday on The Pat McAfee Present.
“I’m enjoying nice golf, I’m excited, however finally yeah, am I annoyed and dissatisfied? Positive, you can completely say that. However I made the alternatives that I made and there’s penalties to that and I respect it.”
As for the remainder of the Olympics discipline, there was some jockeying over the weekend for Group Canada and Group Spain. Corey Conners’ one-over-par weekend pushed him hundredths of some extent above Adam Hadwin within the closing qualifying rating, which suggests he’ll be part of Nick Taylor representing Canada. Teenager David Puig shot 68 within the second spherical at Pinehurst to narrowly beat out Jorge Campillo to symbolize Spain, becoming a member of Jon Rahm. The whole discipline of qualifiers and their international locations is listed under.
1. Scottie Scheffler — United States of America
2. Rory McIlroy — Eire
3. Xander Schauffele — United States of America
4. Ludvig Åberg — Sweden
5. Wyndham Clark — United States of America
6. Viktor Hovland — Norway
7. Collin Morikawa — United States of America
8. Jon Rahm — Spain
9. Hideki Matsuyama — Japan
10. Tommy Fleetwood — Nice Britain
11. Matthew Fitzpatrick — Nice Britain
12. Matthieu Pavon — France
13. Sepp Straka — Austria
14. Jason Day — Australia
15. Tom Kim — Korea
16. Byeong Hun An — Korea
17. Shane Lowry — Eire
18. Nick Taylor — Canada
19. Min Woo Lee — Australia
20. Corey Conners — Canada
21. Christiaan Bezuidenhout — South Africa
22. Stephan Jaeger — Germany
23. Nicolai Højgaard — Denmark
24. Thomas Detry — Belgium
25. Emiliano Grillo — Argentina
26. Alex Noren — Sweden
27. Ryan Fox — New Zealand
28. Erik van Rooyen — South Africa
29. Adrian Meronk — Poland
30. Victor Perez — France
31. Keita Nakajima — Japan
32. Thorbjørn Olesen — Denmark
33. Alejandro Tosti — Argentina
34. Joaquin Niemann — Chile
35. Sami Valimaki — Finland
36. Kevin Yu — Chinese language Taipei
37. David Puig — Spain
38. Matti Schmid — Germany
39. C.T. Pan — Chinese language Taipei
40. Joost Luiten — Netherlands
41. Carl Yuan — China
42. Camilo Villegas — Colombia
43. Matteo Manassero — Italy
44. Adrien Dumont de Chassart — Belgium
45. Daniel Hillier — New Zealand
46. Cristobal Del Photo voltaic — Chile
47. Guido Migliozzi — Italy
48. Shubhankar Sharma — India
49. Rafael Campos — Puerto Rico
50. Darius Van Driel — Netherlands
51. Carlos Ortiz — Mexico
52. Kiradech Aphibarnrat — Thailand
53. Gavin Inexperienced — Malaysia
54. Gaganjeet Bhullar — India
55. Nico Echavarria — Colombia
56. Kris Ventura — Norway
57. Phachara Khongwatmai — Thailand
58. Abraham Ancer — Mexico
59. Zecheng Dou — China
60. Fabrizio Zanotti — Paraguay
