Seventeen Asian players qualify for Olympic women’s golf tournament

Aditi Ashok (India)
Aditi Ashok (India)

Lausanne, Switzerland, June 26, 2024: The two-year qualification period for the women’s golf competition at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games has concluded with the publication of the final women’s Olympic Golf Ranking.

 

The women’s Olympic Golf Ranking features 60 qualifiers representing 33 different countries and regions. The United States of America (Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu and Rose Zhang) and the Republic of Korea (Jin Young Ko, Amy Yang and Hyo Joo Kim) are the only countries with more than two qualifiers.

 

The women’s qualification period for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games began on June 24, 2022 and concluded following the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on June 23, 2024. 

 

The top 15 world-ranked players were eligible for the Olympics, with a limit of four players from a given country. Beyond the top 15, players were eligible based on the Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking, with a maximum of two eligible players from each country that did not already have two or more players among the top 15. 

 

Asia will have 17 players from nine National Olympic Committees.

 

This summer’s competition marks the fifth time golf has been featured as an Olympic sport and just the third time since 1904. 

 

Fifteen women have the opportunity to compete in their third consecutive women’s Olympic golf competition including: Aditi Ashok of India and Lin Xiyu of China.

 

With the women’s Olympic Golf Ranking finalised, the International Golf Federation (IGF) will send confirmation of the men’s and women’s quota places to the National Olympic Committees. The NOCs will then confirm use of allocated quota places to the IGF by June 27 and the IGF, in turn, will reallocate all unused quota places before the Paris 2024 Sport Entries Deadline on July 8.

 

The women’s Olympic golf competition will take place from August 7-10 at Le Golf National. The 60 qualifiers include:

3 Jin Young Ko (Korea)

4 Yin Ruoning (China)

5 Amy Yang (Korea)

10 Yuka Saso (Japan)

12 Atthaya Thitikul (Thailand)

13 Hyo-Joo Kim  (Korea)

15 Lin Xiyu (China)

17 Miyu Yamashita (Japan)

19 Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand)

25 Aditi Ashok (India)

32 Peiyun Chien (Chinese Taipei)

36 Bianca Pagdanganan  (Philippines)

40 Wei-Ling Hsu (Chinese Taipei)

41 Diksha Dagar (India)

43 Shannon Tan (Singapore)

50 Ashley Lau (Malaysia)

56 Dottie Ardina (Philippines)