DUTCH Olympic officials are keeping home two male and one female players from the golf competition in Paris because they believe their world ranking is too low for them to have a realistic chance against 60-player fields.
Although Joost Luiten made it to the International Golf Federation list, he did not pass the Netherlands’ standards.
The decision means Joost Luiten and Darius Van Driel will not be going to Paris. It’s the second straight Olympics that Dutch officials have kept golfers home for not being ranked among the top 100 in the world. Olympic qualifying is based on the Official World Golf Ranking. Countries are allowed two players — four if all are among the top 15 — until the 60-player field is filled.
The absence of Dutch golfers mean the male players will be replaced by Joel Girrbach of Switzerland and Tapio Pulkkanen of Finland from the reallocation reserve list. “It is common for lower-ranked players to make a significant impact in major tournaments, defying their current standings,” the IGF letter said. “There are numerous examples of players who are lower ranked on OWGR who perform well in big events.”
For men, anyone finishing outside the top 27 in the Olympic ranking would have to record a top-eight finish in a tournament — provided that tournament had five players from the top 50 in the world or 10 from the top 100. Anything less would require a top-four finish.
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