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msudogs
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Women's Olympic Golf
Based on the excitement, competitiveness, and massive crowd support, golf is here to stay in the Olympic Games.
This week, the ladies have their turn at Le Golf National.
Nelly Korda (+450), the defending gold medalist from Tokyo, is the current No. 1 ranked player in the world and has been Scheffler-esque on the LPGA Tour this year with six victories, including a major championship win at the Chevron Championship. Nelly leads an American contingent that includes Lilia Vu (9/1) and Rose Zhang (16/1), who both have wins on tour this season.
Thailand’s Atthaya Thitikul (+850) won the Dow Championship event with China’s Ruoning Yin (20/1) at the end of the June.
Aside from Nelly Korda, other 2024 major championships in this week’s field include U.S. Women’s Open champion Yuka Saso (33/1) of Japan and KPMG Women’s PGA Champion Amy Yang (40/1) of South Korea.
Team USA and South Korea are the only nations with three competitors. Jin Young Ko (11/1) and Hyo Joo Kim (20/1) will join Amy Yang for South Korea.
Seventeen of the Top 20 players in the world rankings are in Paris this week, including Canada’s Brooke Henderson (16/1), France’s Celine Boutier (18/1), Miyu Yama****a (18/1), Australians Minjee Lee (22/1) and Hannah Green (25/1), Great Britain’s Charley Hull (25/1), China’s Xiyu Lin (25/1), and Thailand’s Patty Tavatanakit (33/1).
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko (33/1) medaled in both the Rio and Tokyo games.
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08-07-24 08:16 AM |
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msudogs
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The Albatross Course at Le Golf National, located in Guyancourt, just southwest of Paris, will host the Olympic Games competitions. Golf fans and bettors alike should be familiar with this track as it hosted the 2018 Ryder Cup (won by Team Europe 17.5-10.5). It also hosts the Open de France each year on the DP World Tour.
Designed by Hubert Chesnaeu and Robert Van Hagge, Le Golf National opened near Versailles on the outskirts of Paris in 1991.
The course will play as a Par 72 of 6.374 yards for the Olympic competition this week.
Due to the amount of water, the best way to describe Le Golf National is as a combination of a links course with a Florida-style design.
Le Golf National has regularly been one of the toughest courses in the DP World Tour rotation. The average winning score across the past ten French Opens has been around 11 under par. Nevertheless, Scottie Scheffler won Olympic Gold this past weekend at -19/265.
Three cuts of rough, ranging from 2.5 inches to 4.7 inches, which we did not see at the Ryder Cup in 2018, have been added to this week’s setup, so hitting the narrow fairways (28-yard average width) is paramount.
The greens are quite large, an average of 7,535 square feet, and a mix of bentgrass and poa annua. At the 2018 Ryder Cup, the greens ran at a little over 10 on the stimpmeter as the home Ryder Cup team gets to set up the course as they choose, and the Europeans are historically better on the slower greens. This week, they are expected to run at a faster speed of 12 but will be soft as France has received a lot of rain of late.
Ten of the Albatross’ 18 holes have water at least partially in play, including six on the back nine. The greens on the 15th, 16th and 18th holes all have water guarding the approach shots, so it should make for an exciting finish.
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08-07-24 08:18 AM |
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