Golf’s elite more open to Olympics but majors still the summit

The US will have just four players in the field – new Open and US PGA champion Xander Schauffele, world No.1 Scottie Scheffler, two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and 2023 US Open winner Wyndham Clark. 

OLYMPICS: The US will have just four players in the field – new Open and US PGA champion Xander Schauffele, world No.1 Scottie Scheffler, two-time major champion Collin Morikawa and 2023 US Open winner Wyndham Clark. 

Eight years later and the regrets at pulling out of golf’s return to the Olympic Games still linger. No, this isn’t another retread of Rory McIlroy’s highly-debated Rio swerve in 2016. Jason Day is another man to have changed his tune since.

Day was world No.1 at the time having won the US PGA the year before, but he was first in line after McIlroy to announce his intention to stay away as the sport was reintegrated to the Olympic fold for the first time in over a century.