Three Dutch golfers might be watching the 2024 Olympic Games from house regardless of qualifying for the Games after their Olympic committee mentioned their world rankings recommend they might not have a practical probability to compete.
Joost Luiten, 38, is a six-time winner on the European Tour and has certified for 21 majors in his profession. He is presently ranked No. 147 on this planet and No. 40 within the Olympic rankings. He met the {qualifications} to compete in Paris subsequent month, however was instructed this week that he wouldn’t be going.
“I’m very unhappy to say I wil not play the 2024 Olympics. The [Netherlands Olympic Committee/Dutch Sports Federation] wil not ship me despite the fact that I’ve certified by the worldwide golf federations standards and the Olympic standards,” he wrote in a submit on Instagram Tuesday.
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“[The NOCNSF] have their very own standards (good probability to complete prime 8) they usually don’t suppose I’ve an opportunity to complete within the prime 8 of The Olympics (60men discipline) despite the fact that over my 18 yr skilled profession I’ve completed within the highest 10 nearly 20% of the time and people had been 156 man fields. This was 25% within the 2023 season”
He known as the choice “thoughts bowling,” and blasted the Dutch Olympic committee as having “completely no clue about golf.”
The Netherlands Golf Federation mentioned in a press release Tuesday it offered “intensive arguments and information” in a June 14 assembly with the Dutch committee, hopeful of displaying distinctive variations in golf in contrast with different sports activities.
“According to them, it has not been demonstrated that there’s a affordable probability of a top-eight rating throughout the Olympic Games,” the assertion learn.
Darius Van Driel and ladies’s golfer Dewi Weber, who each certified as nicely, had been additionally denied a visit to Paris underneath the identical guidelines.
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“No Olympics for Joost Luiten, Dewi Weber and myself though we certified. The [NOCNSF] doesn’t have a clue about golf and it’s a disgrace we’re struggling now,” Van Driel wrote in a submit on social media.
“We’re not going due to political causes. Mistakes had been made by the [Netherlands Golf Federation] for agreeing with the absurd calls for on the nationwide {qualifications}. A tragic day for Dutch golf.”
“Our personal nation is saying we do not suppose you are worthy of being an Olympian, and you are not worthy of representing the Netherlands,” Weber instructed Golf Digest Tuesday. “And that, truthfully, that hurts. We even requested them, ‘Hey, is that this about cash? Like, we pays for it ourselves. Our Federation pays for it.’
“And they mentioned no, we simply do not suppose you are value it going to the Olympics. That is such a hurtful and unhappy message to ship to elite athletes like us who’ve confirmed, in line with the IOC and IGF requirements, that we’re worthy of doing that and we would like nothing greater than to symbolize our nation and do all of the issues that the Olympics are about.”
Dewi Weber of the Netherlands walks from the eighth tee throughout the third spherical of the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational golf event at Midland Country Club in Midland, Michigan USA, on Friday, July 21, 2023. (Amy Lemus/NurPhoto through Getty Images)
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This marks the second straight Games that Dutch officers have denied golfers a spot for rating exterior the highest 100.
Anne Van Dam, who’s No. 108 within the girls’s world rating and No. 34 within the Olympic rating, would be the solely Dutch golfer.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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