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The women’s Olympic field is set. Nelly Korda will lead a stacked Team USA in Paris as she looks to win her second gold medal.
The Olympic Women’s Golf Competition officially has a field of 60 participants with the latest update of the Rolex Rankings.
They will play at Le Golf National in Paris, the site of the 2018 Ryder Cup, from Aug. 7 to 10.
Two players from each country can qualify unless they rank inside the top 15 in the Official World Golf Rankings (OWGR). A maximum of four players from each country are eligible.
Each tournament has a strength of field rating for the Olympic Golf Rankings based on the quality of players within the field, like the OWGR.
That determines the points awarded at an event, which are then allocated to the players based on where they finish. Better performances in stronger events lead to more points.
Team USA has three of the top 10 players: No. 1 Nelly Korda, No. 2 Lilia Vu, and No. 9 Rose Zhang. Korda has six wins on the season, including five straight. However, Korda missed the cut in her last three starts.
She won the gold medal by one stroke in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo over silver medalist Mone Inami and bronze medalist Lydia Ko. Can she win her second gold in Paris or get on the podium?
South Korea will also have three Olympians after Amy Yang won the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday. She will join Jin Young Ko and Hyo Joo Kim in Paris.
Yang’s addition to South Korea’s Olympic team dropped Morocco’s Ines Laklalech, at No. 321, out of the competition.
Charley Hull and Georgia Hall will represent Great Britain, while Ko looks to get back on the podium for New Zealand. Australian golfer Hannah Green is also back in the Olympics after tying for fifth in Tokyo.
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Nelly Korda’s most recent missed cut came at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
The individual teams and the participants on each follow below, with their current world ranking in parentheses.
United States
Nelly Korda (1)
Lilia Vu (2)
Rose Zhang (9)
South Korea
Jin Young Ko (3)
Amy Yang (5)
Hyo-Joo Kim (13)
China
Ruoning Yin (4)
Xiyu Lin (15)
France
Celine Boutier (6)
Perrine Delacour (75)
Australia
Hannah Green (7)
Minjee Lee (11)
Great Britain
Charley Hull (8)
Georgia Hall (36)
Japan
Yuka Saso (10)
Miyu Yamashita (19)
Thailand
Atthaya Thitikul (12)
Patty Tavatanakit (25)
Canada
Brooke M. Henderson (14)
Alena Sharp (292)
New Zealand
Lydia Ko (17)
Momoka Kobori (293)
Sweden
Maja Stark (21)
Linn Grant (26)
Spain
Carlota Ciganda (30)
Azahara Munoz (109)
Ireland
Leona Maguire (32)
Stephanie Meadow (134)
South Africa
Ashleigh Buhai (41)
Paula Reto (196)
India
Aditi Ashok (60)
Diksha Dagar (167)
Mexico
Gaby Lopez (62)
Maria Fassi (186)
Germany
Esther Henseleit (64)
Alexandra Forsterling (69)
Switzerland
Albane Valenzuela (70)
Morgane Metraux (127)
Scotland
Gemma Dryburgh (79)
Denmark
Emily Kristine Pedersen (87)
Nanna Koerstz Madsen (106)
Taiwan
Peiyun Chien (88)
Wei-Ling Hsu (161)
Netherlands
Anne van Dam (108)
Dewi Weber (302)
Philippines
Bianca Pagdanganan (113)
Dottie Ardina (298)
Belgium
Manon de Roey (154)
Austria
Emma Spitz (178)
Singapore
Shannon Tan (181)
Norway
Celine Borge (187)
Madelene Stavnar (307)
Czech Republic
Klara Davidson Spilkova (192)
Sara Kouskova (290)
Colombia
Mariajo Uribe (198)
Italy
Alessandra Fanali (211)
Malaysia
Ashley Lau (279)
Finland
Ursula Wikstrom (286)
Noora Komulainen (301)
Slovakia
Ana Belac (288)
Savannah Leigh Richardson is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. For more golf coverage, follow us @_PlayingThrough on all major social platforms. You can also follow her on Twitter @SportsGirlSL and Instagram @savannah_leigh_sports.
