Returning to the forefront between a concluded males’s Main (the Masters) and an upcoming girls’s Main (the Chevron Championship) is the dialogue surrounding Italy’s prospects for the Paris 2024 Olympics. The world rankings, essential for qualification, will see the Olympic race conclude on June 17 for males and June 24 for ladies, following the US Open and the Ladies’s PGA Championship respectively.
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It is important to recollect the principles of engagement, relevant in each eventualities: inside the high 15 positions, nations can discipline as much as 4 gamers, whereas past this quota, it decreases to 2. Presently, solely america (4) for each women and men and South Korea (3) for ladies profit from this example.
For all others, it is restricted to 2 entries. There are 60 accessible spots in each the lads’s and ladies’s fields, with none cuts. Though the IGF, the world federation, primarily helpful for regulating Olympic qualification primarily based on the OWGR and WWGR (the 2 rankings), has up to date its web site solely till April 8, it is doable to offer the most recent replace as much as yesterday.
Particularly, within the context of Italian male golfers, Matteo Manassero stays regular at 173rd place, securing his cross to Le Golf Nationwide with out main hurdles. The competitors for the second ticket is tighter, with Guido Migliozzi at 255th and Francesco Molinari at 263rd, which at present locations them comfortably inside the high 50 of Olympic qualification, properly above the “cut-off” (which is Kalle Samooja at 355th).
These excessive limits are as a result of overwhelming presence of Individuals (and Britons) within the international rankings, an element that additionally applies to the ladies’s rankings (right here, the group of Asian nations is added). As for the ladies, the Rolex Rankings at present favor Alessandra Fanali, whose 192nd place would at present guarantee qualification.
Then again, Virginia Elena Carta, at present within the sixtieth and final accessible spot as a consequence of her 307th place within the international rankings, must be cautious. This is because of being overtaken by the Finnish participant Ursula Wikstrom, at present at 306th place.
Briefly, Carta will want a big end result. At present, the closest Italian golfer to problem for Olympic qualification alongside them is Roberta Liti, competing on the American circuits and narrowly lacking out on the Chevron Championship.
