Golf at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article details the qualifying phase for golf at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Sixty players for each of the men's and women's tournaments qualified for Paris 2024, based on the official IGF world ranking list of 17 June 2024 (for men) and 24 June 2024 (for women). The top 15 world-ranked golf players were selected by name and secured their Olympic places, respecting the four-player limit per National Olympic Committee (NOC).^[1] The remaining spots were awarded to the players ranked beyond the top fifteen on the list with a maximum of two per NOC. The IGF guaranteed that at least one golfer qualified from the host nation and at least one from each continent (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania). The IGF posted weekly lists of qualifiers based on current rankings for men and women.^[2]

Points were awarded to the players based on their final positions in each event, with performances in the events with stronger fields earning more points, based on a points distribution schedule approved by the IGF. Ranking points for each player accumulated over a two-year “rolling” period with the points awarded in the most recent thirteen-week period weighted at a full percentage of their original value. After the initial 13-week period, the points were devalued by 1.1% for each of the next 91 weeks before they dropped entirely off the player's two-year record. The IGF Olympic ranking was ordered according to the average points that the players managed to accumulate over the applicable two-year period. Calculating the average points was to divide the total number of ranking points accumulated by the player in the number of tournaments in which he or she has competed during the two-year period.^[1]