Golf returned to the Olympics in 2016 and is poised to see the world's best players play again at the 2024 Paris Games.
Xander Schauffele won the men's gold medal at the 2021 Olympics in Japan, and Nelly Korda won the women's gold medal. Both skaters have a chance to defend their gold medals, with Korda the favorite to win the women's competition and Schauffele in second place in the men's competition.
The golf competition will take place at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, France, a course you may recognize from the 2018 Ryder Cup, where Europe defeated Team USA, 17½ to 10½.
The men's tournament will begin on August 1-4. The women's tournament will follow the following week, August 7-10. As with regular PGA and LPGA Tour events, play will consist of four rounds of 18-hole stroke play. There will be 60 golfers in each field, and there will be no cut.
Let's take a look at the opening odds for winning gold medals in both the men's and women's events.
All odds listed in this article are FanDuel Sportsbook.
Scottie Scheffler is priced as the men's gold medal favorite at +310, which gives him an implied probability of winning of 24.39%. He did not compete in the 2020 Olympics.
Former medalists returning this year include Schauffele and CT Pang, who won the bronze medal for Chinese Taipei in an unprecedented seven-man sudden-death third-place match at the 2021 Olympics.
None of the 2016 medalists qualified to compete this year, and 2021 silver medalist Rory Sabbatini also failed to qualify for the 2024 Games.
Nelly Korda is priced at +600 as the favorite to win her second gold medal, with an implied probability of winning of 14.29%.
The only former medalist to return to play for France is Lydia Ko, who won silver at the 2016 Olympics and bronze at the 2021 Olympics. She is the only golfer to win two Olympic medals.
The other two medallists from the 2016 Games, Park Inbee and Feng Sanshan, did not qualify this year. Mone Inami, the silver medallist from the 2021 Games, also did not qualify this year.
Game odds are updated regularly and are subject to change.
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