Why is Tiger Woods not playing at Paris Olympics 2024? Explored

American legend Tiger Woods will not be playing at the 2024 Paris Olympics. He has struggled to maintain his world ranking and is currently 893rd as per the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR).

The top 15 golfers according to the OWGR qualify for the Olympics, along with the top two players from countries with a single or no player among the top 15.

Woods has failed to make it to the Paris Olympics due to his ranking. He spoke about playing in the Olympics in 2020 in an interview with TaylorMade Golf. He said:

"I would love to represent my country and be part of the Olympic Games. It is something that I was not a part of in '16. I was just coming back, but you know, watching and listening to some of the guys like Justin and Ricky and Baba and those guys and how much they really enjoyed their experiences down there, and I've had a lot of friends who've competed in the Olympic games." [14:10]

This year, Xander Schauffele, Wyndham Clark, Collin Morikawa and Scottie Scheffler will represent Team USA at the Olympics. Schauffele won a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and will return to defend his title.

Morikawa also played in the 2020 Olympics but missed out on winning the bronze medal. Meanwhile, Scheffler and Clark will make their debuts this year.

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Golfers who qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics

Here is a list of the golfers playing at the 2024 Paris Olympics:

• Argentina - Emiliano Grillo, Alejandro Tosti
• Australia - Jason Day, Min Woo Lee
• Austria - Sepp StrakaBelgium - Thomas Detry, Adrien Dumont du Chassart
• Canada - Corey Conners, Nick Taylor
• Chile - Cristobal Del Solar, Joaquin Niemann
• China - Zechang Dou, Carl Yuan
• Chinese Taipei - CT Pan, Kevin Yu
• Colombia - Nico Echevarria, Camillo Villages
• Denmark - Nicolai Hojgaard, Thorbjorn Olesen
• Finland - Sami ValimakiFrance - Matthieu Pavon, Victor Perez
• Germany - Stephan Jaeger, Matti Schmid
• Great Britain - Matt Fitzpatrick, Tommy Fleetwood
• India - Gaganjeet Bhullar, Shubshankar Sharma
• Ireland - Shane Lowry, Rory McIlroy
• Italy - Matteo Manassero, Guido Migliozzi
• Japan - Hideki Matsuyama, Keita Nakajima
• Malaysia - Gavin Green
• Mexico - Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz
• Netherlands - Darius van Driel, Joost Luiten
• New Zealand - Ryan Fox, Daniel Hillier
• Norway - Viktor Hovland, Kris Ventura
• Paraguay - Fabrizio Zanotti
• Poland - Adrian Meronk
• Puerto Rico - Rafael Campos
• South Africa - Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Erik Van Rooyen
• South Korea - Byeong Hun An, Tom Kim
• Spain - Jon Rahm, David Puig
• Sweden - Ludvig Aberg, Alex Noren
• Thailand - Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Phachara Khongwatmai
• United States - Wyndham Clark, Collin Morikawa, Xander Schauffele, Scottie Scheffler

The men's golf event will take place from August 1 to 4.