Three Dutch golfers shall be watching the 2024 Olympic Video games from dwelling regardless of qualifying for the Video games after their Olympic committee stated their world rankings recommend they’d not have a practical probability to compete.
Joost Luiten, 38, is a six-time winner on the European Tour and has certified for 21 majors in his profession. He’s presently ranked No. 147 on the earth and No. 40 within the Olympic rankings. He met the {qualifications} to compete in Paris subsequent month, however was advised this week that he wouldn’t be going.
Joost Luiten of The Netherlands appears on in the course of the first spherical of the KLM Open at The Worldwide on June 20, 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Octavio Passos/Getty Pictures)
“I’m very unhappy to say I wil not play the 2024 Olympics. The [Netherlands Olympic Committee/Dutch Sports Federation] wil not ship me regardless that I’ve certified by the worldwide golf federations standards and the Olympic standards,” he wrote in a submit on Instagram Tuesday.
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“[The NOCNSF] have their very own standards (good probability to complete prime 8) and so they don’t suppose I’ve an opportunity to complete within the prime 8 of The Olympics (60men subject) regardless that over my 18 yr skilled profession I’ve completed within the highest 10 nearly 20% of the time and people had been 156 man fields. This was 25% within the 2023 season”
He referred to as the choice “thoughts bowling,” and blasted the Dutch Olympic committee as having “completely no clue about golf.”
The Netherlands Golf Federation stated in an announcement Tuesday it offered “intensive arguments and knowledge” in a June 14 assembly with the Dutch committee, hopeful of displaying distinctive variations in golf in contrast with different sports activities.
“In line with them, it has not been demonstrated that there’s a affordable probability of a top-eight rating in the course of the Olympic Video games,” the assertion learn.
Darius Van Driel and girls’s golfer Dewi Weber, who each certified as nicely, had been additionally denied a visit to Paris below the identical guidelines.
Darius Van Driel of the Netherlands appears throughout the 18th gap throughout day two of the Volvo Automotive Scandinavian Blended at Vasatorps Golfklubb on June 07, 2024 in Helsingborg, Sweden. (Valerio Pennicino/Getty Pictures)
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“No Olympics for Joost Luiten, Dewi Weber and myself though we certified. The [NOCNSF] doesn’t have a clue about golf and it’s a disgrace we’re struggling now,” Van Driel wrote in a submit on social media.
“We’re not going due to political causes. Errors had been made by the [Netherlands Golf Federation] for agreeing with the absurd calls for on the nationwide {qualifications}. A tragic day for Dutch golf.”
“Our personal nation is saying we do not suppose you are worthy of being an Olympian, and you are not worthy of representing the Netherlands,” Weber advised Golf Digest Tuesday. “And that, actually, that hurts. We even requested them, ‘Hey, is that this about cash? Like, we can pay for it ourselves. Our Federation can pay for it.’
“And so they stated no, we simply do not suppose you are price it going to the Olympics. That’s such a hurtful and unhappy message to ship to elite athletes like us who’ve confirmed, in response to the IOC and IGF requirements, that we’re worthy of doing that and we wish nothing greater than to characterize our nation and do all of the issues that the Olympics are about.”
Dewi Weber of the Netherlands walks from the eighth tee in the course of the third spherical of the Dow Nice Lakes Bay Invitational golf match at Midland Nation Membership in Midland, Michigan USA, on Friday, July 21, 2023. (Amy Lemus/NurPhoto through Getty Pictures)
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This marks the second straight Video games that Dutch officers have denied golfers a spot for rating exterior the highest 100.
Anne Van Dam, who’s No. 108 within the girls’s world rating and No. 34 within the Olympic rating, would be the solely Dutch golfer.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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