The Olympic golf teams are taking shape, with the men's Official World Golf Ranking as of today used as the standard for selection, and the women's OWGR as of 6/28. The field is limited to 60 players, with max of 2 per country, or 4 if your country has 4 players in the top 15, which is the case for the USA for men and women and South Korea for women.
As a result, because of how many top players are from countries with other top players, if you are in the top 280 of the OWGR and are one of the top 2 players from your country, you qualify. And depending on how many players decline to participate (because no prize money, etc.), the invitees may go as deep as 350 in OWGR.
All that to say--two Frogs are on the current
reserve list of potential Olympians, with Paul Barjon as the 5th-ranked Frenchman and Julien Brun as the 7th. Both are ranked inside the top 260 of OWGR.
Seeing that Tommy Fleetwood will
likely get the nod for Great Britain as the 5th-ranked Brit, I went looking to see if any of the top French players were planning to skip Tokyo, but it looks like both
Victor Perez (OWGR 35) and
Antoine Rozner (OWGR 76) plan to play.
With Paris hosting the 2024 Olympics, I can see Barjon and Brun both working hard to improve their standing over the next few years.
For Barjon, too bad New Caledonia didn't establish a National Olympic Committee prior to 1996 like Aruba, Guam and other dependent states that compete in the Olympics. It is
no longer eligible to do so.
Update: Olympic golf roster
now finalized. Includes former Texas Tech player Hurly Long (world #263), who will represent Germany since Martin Kaymer declined to play. Also, South African Rory Sabbatini, who
took Slovakian citizenship in 2018 expressly to compete in the Olympics (he's married to a Slovak) fulfilled his plan by making the field.