Golf at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

The following men have removed themselves from possible qualification:

• Jason Day, Marc Leishman,^[8] Matt Jones, and Adam Scott of Australia^[9]
• Camilo Villegas of Colombia^[10]
• Vijay Singh of Fiji^[11][12]
• Victor Dubuisson of France^[13]
• Shane Lowry, Graeme McDowell, and Rory McIlroy of Ireland^[14]
• Francesco Molinari of Italy^[15]
• Hideki Matsuyama^[16] and Hideto Tanihara of Japan
• Tim Wilkinson of New Zealand^[17]
• Angelo Que of Philippines^[18]
• Branden Grace, Louis Oosthuizen,^[19] and Charl Schwartzel of South Africa^[20]
• Kim Kyung-tae of South Korea^[13]
• Miguel Ángel Jiménez of Spain^[11]
• Dustin Johnson^[21] and Jordan Spieth^[22] of the United States
• Brendon de Jonge of Zimbabwe^[23]

The Zika virus, which can cause serious birth defects and is currently epidemic in Brazil, can live longer in semen than in blood, and might thus infect a male golfer's partner for up to six months later or even more. Consequently, far more top male golfers than top female golfers have withdrawn from the games. However, it has been suggested that the main reason is that women's golf needs the exposure from the Games far more than men's golf.^[24]

Women

Number of female golfers from each country participating in the 2016 Summer Olympics:

  Four

  Three

  Two

  One

  None

Rank	Name	Country	World Ranking
1	Lydia Ko	New Zealand	1
2	Brooke Henderson	Canada	2
3	Inbee Park	South Korea	3
4	Lexi Thompson	United States	4
5	Kim Sei-young	South Korea	5
6	Amy Yang	South Korea	6
7	Ariya Jutanugarn	Thailand	7
8	Chun In-gee	South Korea	8
9	Stacy Lewis	United States	9
10	Anna Nordqvist	Sweden	11
11	Shanshan Feng	China	13
12	Minjee Lee	Australia	14
13	Gerina Piller	United States	15
14	Suzann Pettersen	Norway	18
15	Haru Nomura	Japan	22
16	Charley Hull	Great Britain	27
17	Teresa Lu	Chinese Taipei	28
18	Candie Kung	Chinese Taipei	32
19	Pornanong Phatlum	Thailand	34
20	Carlota Ciganda	Spain	36
21	Su-Hyun Oh	Australia	41
22	Shiho Oyama	Japan	43
23	Azahara Muñoz	Spain	48
24	Xi Yu Lin	China	50
25	Sandra Gal	Germany	55
26	Karine Icher	France	60
27	Catriona Matthew	Great Britain	63
28	Caroline Masson	Germany	77
29	Nicole Broch Larsen	Denmark	88
30	Pernilla Lindberg	Sweden	90
31	Alena Sharp	Canada	91
32	Gaby López	Mexico	98
33	Mariajo Uribe	Colombia	103
34	Nanna Koerstz Madsen	Denmark	109
35	Paula Reto	South Africa	122
36	Gwladys Nocera	France	134
37	Julieta Granada	Paraguay	135
38	Kelly Tan	Malaysia	153
39	Marianne Skarpnord	Norway	155
40	Ashleigh Simon	South Africa	214
41	Laetitia Beck	Israel	223
42	Giulia Molinaro	Italy	251
43	Ursula Wikström	Finland	256
44	Noora Tamminen	Finland	274
45	Klára Spilková	Czech Republic	279
46	Christine Wolf	Austria	317
47	Giulia Sergas	Italy	326
48	Maria Verchenova	Russia	338
49	Leona Maguire (a)	Ireland	353
50	Albane Valenzuela (a)	Switzerland	378
51	Alejandra Llaneza	Mexico	385
52	Chloe Leurquin	Belgium	402
53	Fabienne In-Albon	Switzerland	408
54	Tiffany Chan (a)	Hong Kong	434
55	Michelle Koh	Malaysia	443
56	Aditi Ashok	India	444
57	Miriam Nagl	Brazil	445
58	Victoria Lovelady	Brazil	458
59	Stephanie Meadow	Ireland	492
60	Maha Haddioui	Morocco	560

(a) = amateur

The following women removed themselves from possible qualification:

• Dottie Ardina of Philippines^[25]
• Lee-Anne Pace of South Africa^[26][24]

The following women have been removed from possible qualification by their NOC:

• Christel Boeljon (ranked 35) and Anne van Dam (51) and first replacement Dewi Schreefel of the Netherlands^[27]
• Cathryn Bristow (ranked 58) of New Zealand^[28]

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