Golf returned to the Olympics in 2016 and now we’re ready to watch the best in the world tee it up once again in the 2024 Paris games.
Xander Schauffele won the men’s gold medal at the 2021 Olympics in Japan while Nelly Korda claimed it from the women’s competition. Both golfers have a chance to repeat as gold medal winners, with Korda set as the betting favorite for the women and Schauffele second on the odds list for the men.
The golf competition will be held at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France. You may recognize this course from the 2018 Ryder Cup, when Europe routed the U.S. team 17½ to 10½.
At this Olympics, the men will play first, from Aug. 1-4. The women will tee it up the following week from Aug. 7-10. Just like a standard PGA Tour or LPGA Tour event, play will consist of four rounds of 18-hole stroke play. Each field will consist of 60 golfers and there will be no cut.
Let’s take a look at the opening odds to win the gold medal for both the men’s and women’s competitions.
All odds listed in this article are via FanDuel Sportsbook.
Scottie Scheffler is set as the +310 favorite to win the men’s gold medal, which is an implied win probability of 24.39%. He did not compete in the 2020 Olympic Games.
Former medalists who will be teeing it up again this year include Schauffele and C.T. Pan, who won the bronze medal for Chinese Taipei at the 2021 Games via an unprecedented seven-man sudden-death playoff for third place.
No medalist from the 2016 games qualified to compete this year. Rory Sabbatini, the silver medalist from 2021, also failed to qualify in 2024.
Nelly Korda is set as the +600 favorite to win her second straight gold medal, giving her an implied win probability of 14.29%.
The only former medalist who is teeing it up again in France is Lydia Ko, who won the silver medal at the 2016 games and the bronze medal in 2021. She is the only golfer to win two Olympic medals.
Inbee Park and Shanshan Feng, the two other medalists from 2016, failed to qualify this year. Mone Inami, the silver medalist from the 2021 games, also failed to qualify this year.
Game odds refresh periodically and are subject to change.
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