2016 Rio Olympic Games Golf Men's Field
Here are the 60 men that will be competing for gold in Rio
The 2016 Rio Olympic Games Golf Men's Field includes 60 golfers representing 34 different nations
2016 Rio Olympic Games Golf Men's Field
The men's Olympic games golf tournament has been a contentious one, with quite a few of the world's best players pulling out.
Just some of the names to have pulled out include Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy, Dustin Johnson, Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen, Shane Lowry and Hideki Matsuyama.
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However, both of GB's major-winning Englishmen Danny Willett and Justin Rose are playing, as is Open Champion Henrik Stenson.
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Despite the withdrawals of Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, Team USA are looking very strong with a maximum of four players representing the Stars and Stripes.
They're the only team with four players (no team has more than two) because they have four in the top 15 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
Open Champion and world number five Henrik Stenson is the highest ranked player in the field.
Here is the full men's Olympic field:
GB - Danny Willett, Justin Rose
USA - Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed, Matt Kuchar
Sweden - Henrik Stenson, David Lingmerth
Spain - Sergio Garcia, Rafa Cabrera Bello
Germany - Martin Kaymer, Alex Cejka
South Korea - Byeong-Hun An, Jeunghun Wang
Thailand - Thongchai Jaidee, Kiradech Aphibarnrat
New Zealand - Danny Lee, Ryan Fox
Argentina - Emiliano Grillo, Fabian Gomez
Denmark - Soren Kjeldsen, Thorbjorn Olesen
France - Gregory Bourdy, Julien Quesne
Ireland - Padraig Harrington, Seamus Power
Austria - Bernd Wiesberger
Italy - Matteo Mannassero, Nino Bertasio
India - Anirban Lahiri, SSP Chawrasia
Netherlands - Joost Luiten
Belgium - Thomas Pieters, Nicolas Colsaerts
South Africa - Jaco Van Zyl, Brandon Stone
Australia - Scott Hend, Marcus Fraser
Japan - Yuta Ikeda, Shingo Katayama
Portugal - Ricardo Gouveia, Jose-Filipe Lima
Canada - David Hearn, Graham DeLaet
China - Wu Ashun, Hao Tong Li
Philippines - Miguel Tabuena
Paraguay - Fabrizio Zanotti
Malaysia - Danny Chia, Gavin Kyle Green
Finland - Mikko Ilonen, Roope Kakko
Venezuela - Jhonattan Vegas
Chile - Felipe Aguilar
Chinese Taipei - Pan Cheng-Tsung, Wen-Tang Lin
Brazil - Adilson da Silva
Norway - Espen Kofstad
Bangladesh - Siddikur Rahman
Mexico - Rodolfo Cazaubon
Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!
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