USA’s Xander Schauffele returns to Paris for the 2024 Olympic golf competition after winning a gold … [+] medal at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The men’s Olympic golf competition is scheduled for Aug. 1-4 at Le Golf National in Paris, France. The 2021 Olympic gold medal winner Xander Schauffele is one of 60 golfers from 32 countries taking part in the men’s competition. The par 71 Albatros Course also hosted the 2018 Ryder Cup, and will play to 7,174 yards for 2024 Olympic event. There is no cut for the 72-hole stroke play competition. The top-three finishers on the leaderboard will win Gold, Silver and Bronze medals.
Four American golfers from the PGA Tour will represent USA with world No. 1 and 2024 Masters champion Scottie Scheffler and world No. 2 PGA Championship and British Open champion Xander Schauffele leading the way along with past major champions Collin Morikawa and Wyndham Clark.
The Golf Channel will carry live coverage all four days of the men’s Olympic golf competition starting at 3 a.m. ET in the U.S. and streaming on Peacock. USA Network will broadcast the final day Sunday, Aug. 4 starting at 2 p.m.
Odds to Win Gold Medal
Leading favorites and contenders golf odds from FanDuel Sportsbook refresh periodically and are subject to change, including on props and live betting.
+340: Scottie Scheffler (USA)
+600: Xander Schauffele (USA)
+700: Rory McIlroy (IRL)
+900: Jon Rahm (ESP)
+1200: Collin Morikawa (USA), Ludvig Aberg (SWE)
+1600: Shane Lowry (IRL)
+2000: Tommy Fleetwood (GBR)
+2200: Viktor Hovland (NOR), Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)
+2600: Tom Kim (KOR)
+2900: Joaquin Niemann (CHI), Corey Conners (CAN)
+3400: Wyndham Clark (USA)
+3500: Alex Noren (SWE)
+3900: Matt Fitzpatrick (GBR)
+4000: Min Woo Lee (AUS)
+4200: Sepp Straka (AUT)
+4700: Thomas Detry (BEL), Carlos Ortiz (MEX)
+5000: Adrian Meronk (POL)
+5500: Jason Day (AUS)
+6500: Nicolai Hojgaard (DEN), Christiaan Bezuidenhout (RSA), Matthieu Pavon (FRA), Byeong Hun An (KOR), Abraham Ancer (MEX)
+8000: Guido Migliozzi (ITA), C.T. Pan (TPE), Ryan Fox (NZL)
+8500: Matteo Manassero (ITA), Victor Perez (FRA)
+10000: Keita Nakajima (JPN), Stephan Jaeger (GER), David Puig (ESP)
+10000: Sami Valimaki (FIN), Mito Pereira (CHI), Thorbjorn Olesen (DEN)
+11000: Emiliano Grillo (ARG)
+12000: Erik Van Rooyen (RSA)
Others: +15000 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA), Nick Taylor (CAN), Kevin Yu (TPE), +21000 Alejandro Tosti (ARG), Matti Schmid (GER), +25000 Shubhankar Sharma (IND), Adrien Dumont De Chassart (BEL), Gavin Green (MAS), +32000 Fabrizio Zanotti (ITA), Daniel Hillier (NZL), Kristoffer Ventura (NOR), Phachara Khongwatmai (THA), Nico Echavarria (COL), Tapio Pulkkanen (FIN), Joel Girrbach (SWI), +50000 Carl Yuan (CHN), Zecheng Dou (CHN), Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND), Camilo Villegas (COL), Rafael Campos (PUR)
Xander Schauffele of Team United States celebrates with the gold medal during the medal ceremony … [+] after the final round of the Men’s Individual Stroke Play on day nine of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Kasumigaseki Country Club on August 01, 2021 in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
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Best Bets
FanDuel and leading online sportsbooks will post additional props and matchups ahead of the competition. Here are some players to target for gold or any medal along with props when considering some key strokes gained data with SG: Approach a key stat along with Putting, according to FanDuel Research.
Xander Schauffele (USA)
Collin Morikawa (USA)
Viktor Hovland (Norway)
Alex Noren (Sweden)
Byeong Hun An (Republic of Korea)
Know too that Olympic golf competition is a different environment and emotion for players, and that two huge longshots greater than 150/1 won silver and bronze medals at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics held in 2021 due to COVID.
The Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles in 2028, and the International Golf Federation announced that Riviera Country Club has been approved as the host course. But until the next round, this year’s golf competition in Paris will provide more memorable moments and spectacular shots on the way to the podium – perhaps for another leading American.
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