Olympic golf, which had previously ignored top players, was crowded at the Paris Games

Olympic golf, which had previously ignored top players, was crowded at the Paris Games

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During the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, many of the top male golf players declined to participate.

The superficial reason was concerns about the Zika virus spreading in Brazil at the time, but the intention was to focus

more on major tournaments with big prize money and prestige.

Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth (both from the US), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland) and Jason Day (Australia), who were

at the top of the world rankings at the time, did not compete in the Rio Olympics.

Brooks Koepka (USA) and Adam Scott (Australia) also declined to compete.

Five years later, at the Tokyo Olympics, 11 athletes qualified but declined to participate.

Johnson, Sergio Garcia (Spain), Matt Fitzpatrick (England), Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa), Francesco Molinari (Italy)

and Camilo Villegas (Colombia) are some of the notable athletes who have decided not to compete in the Tokyo Olympics.

With so many famous, top-class athletes declining to compete, there have even been calls to exclude golf from the

Olympics.

But the atmosphere has changed dramatically ahead of the Paris 합법 Olympics this year.

There are only two athletes who qualified but decided not to compete in the Paris Olympics.

Bernd Wiesberger (Austria) and Cristobal del Sola (Chile) have announced that they will not be going to the Paris

Olympics.

Wiesberger, who had declined to compete in the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, has once again returned to the Paris

Olympics without giving a clear reason.

Sola, who plays on the Korn Ferry Tour of the United States PGA, declined to accept the opportunity to compete in the

Olympics, saying he would rather focus on earning a PGA Tour card next year.

Considering that Wiesberger is ranked 211th in the world and Sola is ranked 199th, there is no problem in the box office of

the Paris Olympics.

It is completely different from the Rio Olympics eight years ago when there was talk of Olympic exclusion.

In short, the attitudes of top male athletes who had been indifferent to the Olympics have changed.

Even Bryson DeChambeau (USA) expressed his regret for not being able to compete in the Paris Olympics because he was

ranked 6th in the world among American players even after winning the US Open.

This change is due to the treatment given to athletes who won gold medals at the last two Olympics.

Justin Rose (USA), who won the Rio Olympics, is better known as an Olympic gold medalist than as a US Open champion,

and Xander Schauffele (USA), who reached the top at the Tokyo Olympics, has enjoyed the honors of an Olympic gold

medalist for the past three years.

It also helped to provide practical benefits to Olympic gold medalists, such as granting them the right to compete in major

and special competitions.

Meanwhile, eight players ranked in the world's top 20 will not be competing in the men's golf event at the Paris Olympics.

They are all American players.

This is because of the rule that no more than four players of the same nationality can participate.