Following the third women’s Major of the year, the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, confirmation came of the 60 women who will be making their way to Paris for the 2024 Olympics.
There is no shortage of huge names from the women’s game, either, with all the world’s current top 10 set to tee it up at Le Golf National, including Nelly Korda, who claimed gold for the US at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Like the men’s field, though, some high-profile players won’t be competing. In the case of South Korea’s 2016 gold medal winner Inbee Park, it’s not a big surprise given her absence from competitive action since the birth of her first child in 2023, although she has had some involvement in the Games thanks to her role as one of 32 candidates on the International Olympics Committee’s Athletes Commission.
As for Shanshan Feng, who won bronze China at the 2016 games, she announced her retirement in August 2022 after a career that also included 10 LPGA Tour wins.
Here are 11 other big names who will not be competing at the 2024 Olympics.
Lexi Thompson
Lexi Thompson misses out on a third Olympics start
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The American’s days in the glare of professional golf are numbered after she announced she would be retiring from the full-time game at the end of the season.
Any hopes she had of making a third successive Olympics appearance was scuppered by her world ranking, which, at 33rd, wasn’t close to taking a place despite an uptick in form in recent weeks that included a T2 at the Meijer LPGA Classic and T9 at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship.
Ally Ewing
Ally Ewing won’t be making her maiden Olympics appearance
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Ewing can count herself particularly unlucky to miss out on a maiden Olympics appearance for the US after finishing the qualifying period 16th in the world rankings, just seven places beneath the last of the three players to book a ticket, Rose Zhang. That’s despite valiant effort to haul herself up the world rankings, helped by top-10 finishes in each of the three tournaments before the cut-off.
Megan Khang
Megan Khang is one of several high-quality US players who won’t be competing
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The 26-year-old has an LPGA Tour win, 10 top-10 finishes in Majors and three Solheim Cup appearances on…
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