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Did players get paid for winning a medal at the Paris Olympic Golf?

Do players get paid for playing in the Olympic Golf and why is it such a contentious subject?

Written by Ross Tugwood on Tuesday 6 August 2024

Prize money payouts are creeping into the world’s biggest sporting festival, but has it found its way to the newly reintroduced Olympic Golf events and why does the topic split opinion? When the Olympic flame burns down to its dying embers in Paris, the world will reflect on their favorite moments of sporting prowess that determined the destiny of three colored...

Georgia Hall and Charley Hull will represent Team GB in women's golf at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The women representing Team GB in golf at the Paris 2024 Olympics

Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 5 August 2024

Georgia Hall and Charley Hull will represent Team GB in women’s golf at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Matt Fitzpatrick and Tommy Fleetwood represented Team GB in the men’s Olympic golf last week, with the latter securing a silver medal after finishing a shot behind an unstoppable Scottie Scheffler. It’s the women’s turn this week, and 60 golfers will battle it out...

Nelly Korda poses with the Olympic rings in Paris as she looks to repeat the gold medal she won in Tokyo.

Tee times and groups as Nelly Korda goes for back-to-back women’s Olympic golf gold medals in Paris

Written by Rob Jerram on Monday 5 August 2024

The tee times and groups for the opening two rounds of the Women’s Olympic Golf Tournament at Le Golf National have been revealed as Team USA’s Nelly Korda aims to win back-to-back gold medals in Paris. World No.1 and American superstar Korda will begin her gold medal defense by playing alongside Korea’s Jin Young Ko (Korea), and China’s Ruoning Yin for...

60 women will compete at Le Golf National in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Paris Olympics 2024: Full field of players in women’s golf

Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 5 August 2024

The 60 women vying for gold, silver, and bronze at Le Golf National in the 2024 Paris Olympics. After Scottie Scheffler’s sensational victory in the men’s golf, Olympic golf turns to the women’s event, taking place at Le Golf National across 7-10 August. Check out the tee times and groups for women’s golf at the Olympics here. A total of 60...

The PGA Tour's final regular season event gets underway at the Wyndham Championship

Wyndham Championship 2024 preview: Field, betting odds, how to watch, and tee times

Written by Ross Kilvington on Monday 5 August 2024

With Olympic medals dished out in Paris, the PGA Tour gets straight back to business at the Wyndham Championship where Lucas Glover defends at the final regular season event. Scottie Scheffler’s glittering 2024 continued as he produced a stunning final round of 62 to edge Tommy Fleetwood to the Olympic gold medal at Le Golf National. The final round in Paris...

Tommy Fleetwood, Jon Rahm, and Xander Schauffele are in the medal positions in Paris heading into the final round.

Men’s Olympic Golf 2024: Final round tee times as Rahm, Schauffele share lead with Fleetwood chasing

Written by Rob Jerram on Saturday 3 August 2024

Tee times and groups for Sunday’s final round of the men’s Olympic Golf Tournament revealed as Spain’s Jon Rahm aims to hold off USA’s defending champion Xander Schauffele and Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood for gold at Paris 2024. We’re heading for a super Sunday Olympic Golf showdown at Le Golf National with the top of the men’s leaderboard as exciting as anything...

Ben An and Tom Kim are representing South Korea in the Olympics. They could gain an exemption from military service with a medal.

Why a podium finish would mean so much more than a medal for two Olympic golfers at Paris 2024

Written by Rob Jerram on Friday 2 August 2024

For 58 golfers in the field at Le Golf National this weekend, an Olympic medal would mean national recognition, a shiny medal, and a place in the history books. But for Tom Kim and Ben An, it would be life-changing. WAAC (Win At All Costs) says the branding on the side of the South Korean pair’s team caps in Paris. Podium...

Fleetwood, Matsuyama, and Schauffele share the lead heading into the 3rd round of the men's Olympic golf tournament in Paris.

Tee times and groups for Saturday’s 3rd round of Men’s Olympic Golf 2024 as Shauffele shares lead

Written by Rob Jerram on Friday 2 August 2024

Tee times and groups for Saturday’s third round of the men’s Olympic Golf Tournament at Le Golf National revealed as USA’s defending champion Xander Schauffele, Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, and Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood lead the way at Paris 2024. Despite using a traditional four-round strokeplay format, there’s no cut at the Men’s Olympic Golf Tournament, so all 60 players who teed it...

Rory McIlroy is representing Ireland in golf at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Rory McIlroy reveals why he is representing Ireland and not Team GB in golf at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Written by Rob McGarr on Thursday 1 August 2024

Rory McIlroy is representing Ireland in golf at the Paris 2024 Olympics. With golf underway at the 2024 Paris Olympics, one of the favorites for a medal, Rory McIlroy, has revealed why he is playing for Ireland rather than Team GB. Tee times for Olympic golf McIlroy was born in Northern Ireland and was eligible to represent Team GB but opted to...

There were gold medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics, but not every winning athlete received one

How Margaret Abbott won gold in golf at the Paris 1900 Olympics… and never realized

Written by Matt Cooper on Thursday 1 August 2024

Margaret Abbott’s unknown glory is a crazy story highlighting just how different the Olympics used to be… Margaret Abbott died in Greenwich, Connecticut shortly before her 77th birthday in June 1955. It was, naturally, a very sad day but the mourners were able to celebrate the fact that their relative and friend had lived an unusually rich, varied, and well-travelled life. Abbott...

Men's Olympic Golf gets underway on Thursday at Le Golf National

Olympic Golf 2024: Men’s Tee Times for Thursday and Friday at Le Golf National

Written by Sarah Pyett on Wednesday 31 July 2024

Golf gets underway at the Olympics in Paris on Thursday 1st August, where Le Golf National plays host to 2024’s tournament. The men’s Olympics Golf teams will compete for the coveted Olympic medals over 72 holes this week, where an individual strokeplay format will decide who gets to take home the gold medal. 60 men (and 60 women, whose event begins next...

I went to LIV Golf UK by JCB and this is what I thought

Written by Matt Cooper on Tuesday 30 July 2024

Two years on from LIV Golf’s first event, I attended its third UK tournament to see what the experience is like, how LIV is progressing, and whether this is the future of golf. It is just two years ago that the LIV golfing revolution was launched at the Centurion Club in St Albans. It was a remarkable debut, a week in...

Seven golfers will represent Team USA at the Paris 2024 Olympics

The seven players representing Team USA in golf at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 29 July 2024

We look at the four men and three women representing the USA at Paris 2024 – plus the reason the USA has more golfers in the field than any other country. The USA’s hopes of Olympic glory in golf rest on the shoulders of Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark, and Collin Morikawa in the men’s golf, and Nelly Korda, Lilia...

Jon Rahm wins his first LIV event, picking up $4,000,000 in prize money for victory at LIV Golf UK by JCB.

How much did every player earn at LIV Golf UK by JCB? Full prize money breakdown as Rahm wins

Written by Rob McGarr on Monday 29 July 2024

Jon Rahm wins his first LIV event, picking up $4,000,000 in prize money for victory at LIV Golf UK by JCB. Jon Rahm ended his wait for a LIV victory by taking the title at LIV Golf UK by JCB. Rahm’s 13-under-par total was enough to win by one shot after his Legion XIII teammate Tyrrell Hatton missed a short...