2016 Olympic Rankings

[boogielicious]

Two years out the rankings are as follows:

http://www.igfgolf.org/olympic-games/ogr-men/

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This Week	Player	NOC
1	Adam Scott	AUS
2	Rory McIlroy	IRL
3	Henrik Stenson	SWE
4	Justin Rose	GBR
5	Sergio Garcia	ESP
6	Bubba Watson	USA
7	Matt Kuchar	USA
8	Jason Day	AUS
9	Tiger Woods	USA
10	Jim Furyk	USA
11	Martin Kaymer	GER
12	Hideki Matsuyama	JPN
13	Graeme McDowell	IRL
14	Luke Donald	GBR
15	Victor Dubuisson	FRA
16	Thomas Bjorn	DEN
17	Charl Schwartzel	RSA
18	Miguel Jimenez	ESP
19	Thongchai Jaidee	THA
20	Graham DeLaet	CAN
21	Jonas Blixt	SWE
22	Francesco Molinari	ITA
23	Joost Luiten	NED
24	Mikko Ilonen	FIN
25	Louis Oosthuizen	RSA
26	Angel Cabrera	ARG
27	Koumei Oda	JPN
28	Bernd Wiesberger	AUT
29	Matteo Manassero	ITA
30	K.J. Choi	KOR
31	Brendon de Jonge	ZIM
32	Anirban Lahiri	IND
33	Hyung-Sung Kim	KOR
34	Thorbjorn Olesen	DEN
35	Fabrizio Zanotti	PAR
36	David Hearn	CAN
37	Kiradech Aphibarnrat	THA
38	Alexander Levy	FRA
39	Marcel Siem	GER
40	Felipe Aguilar	CHI
41	Emiliano Grillo	ARG
42	Nicolas Colsaerts	BEL
43	Mohd Rahman	BAN
44	Shiv Kapur	IND
45	Carlos Ortiz	MEX
46	WC Liang	CHN
47	Robert-Jan Derksen	NED
48	Wu Ashun	CHN
49	Vijay Singh	FIJ
50	Camilo Villegas	COL
51	Danny Lee	NZL
52	Tim Wilkinson	NZL
53	Chan Shih-chang	TPE
54	Antonio Lascuna	PHI
55	Adilson da Silva	BRA
56	Juvic Pagunsan	PHI
57	Jhonattan Vegas	VEN
58	Roope Kakko	FIN
59	Ricardo Santos	POR
60	Thomas Pieters	BEL

[atb5079]

Where's Phil? lol

[billchao]

Where's Phil? lol

Didn't make the cut. [Quote]The IOC has restricted the IGF to an Olympic field of 60 players for each of the men’s and women's competition. The IGF will utilise the official world golf rankings to create the Olympic golf rankings as a method of determining eligibility. The top-15 world-ranked players will be eligible for the Olympics, with a limit of four players from a given country. Beyond the top-15, players will be eligible based on the world rankings, with a maximum of two eligible players from each country that does not already have two or more players among the top-15.[/Quote]

[Grndslmhttr3]

So in other words, if you're American you pretty much have to be in the top 10 of the OWGR to make it; it's gonna be tough competition for sure.

[billchao]

So in other words, if you're American you pretty much have to be in the top 10 of the OWGR to make it; it's gonna be tough competition for sure.

Not exactly. Only the top 4 Americans make it, assuming they are all in the top 15 of the OWGR. They can be 11-14 and still be in. Also, in the unlikely event that there are no Americans in the top 15, the two highest ranked Americans will make it. America can also, theoretically, not be represented, but it's so improbable that it's not even really worth discussing.

[atb5079]

Phil is gonna be left off the Olympic roster at this time? lol what a joke. And DJ. Gimme a break. They need big names to sell this thing.

[Grndslmhttr3]

Not exactly. Only the top 4 Americans make it, assuming they are all in the top 15 of the OWGR. They can be 11-14 and still be in.

I know; I was speaking with the assumption, albeit a premature one, that there will be four Americans in the top 10. I think they decide using the rankings as of June 20, 2014 though, so a lot can happen I suppose.

[ditchparrot19]

Phil is gonna be left off the Olympic roster at this time? lol what a joke. And DJ. Gimme a break. They need big names to sell this thing.

They've got to have at least some sort of an objective criteria based on a qualifying list. You start cherry-picking big names in order to "sell" it and it truly will be a joke.

[FarawayFairways]

When they discover they're expected to live in an athletes village, speak with other competitors, and queue in line to eat from a canteen, I can see quite a few saying 'no thanks'.

Quite apart from the fact that golf shouldn't be in the Olympics, the most sensible thing to do in finest traditions of Open Olympic sport is to simply ask the appropriate national Olympic Federation to organise their own team in association with the sport governing body

[billchao]

When they discover they're expected to live in an athletes village, speak with other competitors, and queue in line to eat from a canteen, I can see quite a few saying 'no thanks'.  Quite apart from the fact that golf shouldn't be in the Olympics, the most sensible thing to do in finest traditions of Open Olympic sport is to simply ask the appropriate national Olympic Federation to organise their own team in association with the sport governing body

Well other than the fact that it's going to be a pretty weak field, why shouldn't golf be an Olympic sport?

[tmac20]

It would be a shame if Tiger and Phil didn't make the US team. They are the two most deserving players in this era.

[FarawayFairways]

Well other than the fact that it's going to be a pretty weak field, why shouldn't golf be an Olympic sport?

The Olympics should be the pinnacle of achievement for the sport concerned, the absolute zenith and most sought after prize available. In golf it isn't. That simple. Golf therefore degrades the Olympics

And before you say what about Tennis, Football, and Basketball, neither should they either .... unless, they're being played by amateurs for whom winning an Olympic gold medal means something (as it is in boxing). Golfers and tennis players are amongst some of the richest sports people on the planet, they're miles removed from the original idea of the modern Olympics (which despite being creditted to the French, was actually a British invention heralding from the Shropshire village of Much Wenlock  which Baron de Coubertin just happened to visit)

There are other sports that have world championships of course, but an Olympic medal is on parallel with these in things like Rowing, Cycling, Badminton, Sailing

Too many non-Olympics sports have made it into the Olympics, others have mercifully been lost (like game shooting!) but I'd start by culling those which don't really have the Olympic Gold as its principal accolade

Actually bring back game shooting, that would be a hoot. Although the fried doves from 1988 has come perilously close (no longer allowed to ue doves in the opening ceremony after that fiasco)

[boogielicious]

Fair point @FarawayFairways .   I do miss the Olympics being all amateur.  I am lukewarm at best about golf in the Olympics as well.  I would ad that there are many sports that don't have professional version that do not belong in the Olympics either.  Rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, curling (forgive me @Ernest Jones ).  I don't see these falling into the Olympic ideal of greatest athlete either.  There are many more, including shooting sports, that don't require you to be a great athlete.

But back on topic, I believe even wealthy athletes will still be very proud to represent their country in golf, including Tiger, Phil or whoever makes the team.  The original Olympians in the first few modern games were wealthy men for the most part.