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KAWAGOE, JAPAN - AUGUST 01: Xander Schauffele of Team United States celebrates with the gold medal during the medal ceremony after the final round of the Men's Individual Stroke Play on day nine of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Kasumigaseki Country Club on August 01, 2021 in Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
The 2024 Summer Olympics get underway this week and the golf portion of the games will be a Le Golf National. The men’s tournament will take place August 1-4, while the women’s tournament will be held from August 7-10.
Through the qualification process the United States will have a total of seven golfers (four men and three women) competing in the tournaments. They’ll also have both defending gold medalists on their teams this year. Below is a list of the golfers representing Team USA at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
MEN’S GOLFERS
SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER
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The number one ranked men’s golfer on the planet and current Masters champion will represent the U.S.A. in the Olympics for the first time. Scheffler will look to become the first golfer to win both the Masters and Olympic gold in the same year.
XANDER SCHAUFFELE
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Schauffele will enter the Olympics as the reigning gold medalist in the men’s game. He enters the 2024 tournament with a bit more hardware in his trophy case after his two major output in 2024. Can Schauffele backup his Claret Jug victory with a successful defense of his gold medal?
WYNDHAM CLARK
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Clark’s U.S. Open victory in 2023 and Pebble Beach Pro-Am victory early in 2024 helped him get where he needed to be in the world rankings to qualify for his first Olympics. Even though the Olympics doesn’t have the strongest field due to the qualifying rules, Clark will be looking to finally perform well in a big event in 2024 as his major season in 2024 included three missed cuts and a T56 in his U.S. Open title defense.
COLLIN MORIKAWA
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Morikawa will be appearing in his second consecutive Olympics for the United States at the 2024 games. He fell short of a bronze medal in the 2020 games after losing to C.T. Pan on the fourth playoff hole.
WOMEN’S GOLFERS
NELLY KORDA
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Korda had a terrific summer in 2021 and that included a gold medal at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo (they kept the 2020 name even though the games were delayed a year). The current world number one will be looking to regain her early 2024 form at the 2024 Summer Games and defend her gold medal at Le Golf National.
LILIA VU
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Vu enters her Olympic debut as the second ranked golfer in the women’s world rankings. The two-time major champion had a big 2023, but an injury slowed her 2024 season early on. Since returning from injury she has found the winner’s circle again and now she’ll be looking to add a gold medal to her trophy case in Paris.
ROSE ZHANG
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Much like Vu, Zhang will be representing the U.S.A. in the Olympics for the first time in her career. Zhang got herself into the Olympics by picking up two wins within a year of turning pro and climbing the world rankings. She’ll try to become the first golfer to win both the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and an Olympic gold medal in their career.
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Meet Massachusetts 20 Olympic athletes
With the 2024 Paris Olympics coming up shortly, it’s time to take a look at the 20 athletes from the commonwealth of Massachusetts who are heading to Paris to represent the United States. Massachusetts has an illustrious Olympic history ranking 21st in gold medals by state tied with Arkansas and Virginia. So let’s take a look at the twenty athletes from around the state hoping to add to Massachusetts and Team USA’s olympic history.
Kristi Wagner-rowing
Kristi Wagner will be part of the United States rowing team at the 2024 games. Wagner is 31 years old and this will be her second Olympics. She came in fifth in the Tokyo games in 2020. Wagner has won a bronze medal on the world championship stage and listed Michael Jordan as one of her inspirations in sports. She is a graduate of Yale university and is from Weston Massachusetts.
Alexandra Hammel – Field Hockey
Hammel is 28 years old from Duxbury Massachusetts. Alexandra will be part of team USA’s field hockey team. She was part of the Pan American games in 2023 in a silver medal with team USA. Hammel will look to add an olympic medal to her resume in Paris.
Eli Dershwitz 28 – fencing
Dershwitz is a two-time Olympian from Boston, Massachusetts a graduate of Harvard. Eli credits his brother for getting him into fencing, his best result was an eighth at the 2020 games in Tokyo. On the world championship stage Eli captured gold in the 2023 games and has been competing in the individuals since 2011.
Margaret Hedeman – Concord
Hedman began rowing in 2014 at community rowing on the Charles river in Boston. Her sister is on the under 19 national team. She was a 2020, 2022 and 2023 scholar athlete and a 2023 first time all Ivy League selection out of Yale, her most recent world championship experience she won a silver medal in the 2023 games.
Emilie Eldracher – 24 pararowing
Eldracher is from Andover Massachusetts. She will be competing in the Paralympics for the pararowing team. Emilie was introduced to rowing through an introductory class in the fall season during her freshman year of high school.
Henry Hollingsworth 26 rowing – Dover MA
Hollingsworth comes from a family of rowers. His cousin Andrew Reid rowed in the Olympic Games in 2020 in Tokyo. He went to Brown University and received academic all Ivy recognition and was a second team IRCA all American.
Alex Flynn 20 pararowing
Alex is 20 years old from Danvers Massachusetts a student at Tufts University his most recent championship experience came in 2023 where he captured a silver medal in the PR3 Coxed four games.
Fred Richard gymnastics – Stoughton MA
Fred is a 20-year-old student at the University of Michigan from Stoughton Massachusetts. His favorite event in the Olympics is the high bar and he got into gymnastics because he would run on the floor and tumble when picking up his sister from gymnastics class. His world championship experience includes a bronze medal in the men’s all around in the 2023 games.
Ruby Remati, artistic swimming – Andover
Remati is a 21-year-old athlete out of Andover Massachusetts a student at Ohio State University. She credits her parents for getting her into synchronized swimming and has some world championship experience at the 2019 games.
Kristi Kirshe – rugby
Kirshe is 29 years old out of Franklin Massachusetts. She graduated from Williams college and began playing rugby at 23 years old after a career in soccer at Williams. She is one time Olympian playing for team USA at the 2020 games in Tokyo where the team came in sixth place.
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