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The United States have won 14 Olympic medals so far in golf. The most recent one of these came during the ongoing Paris Olympics.
Scottie Scheffler won the men's singles event at Paris 2024, beating Tommy Fleetwood and Hideki Matsuyama, who won silver and bronze respectively.. There have been a total of 28 medals awarded to various players in the five Olympics when golf has featured in the quadrennial Games.
Golf featured for the first time in the Olympics in the 1900 Paris Games. The men's and women's events were held at Compiègne Golf Club.
Team USA won four medals with one in the men's event and three in the women's event in the inaugural Olympic Golf. Charles Sands won the gold medal in the men's event while Margaret Abbott won it in the women's event.
In 1904, the Olympics were held at St. Louis, Missouri and the venue for the men's golf event was Glen Echo Country Club, Normandy, Missouri. Women's event wasn't held in 1904.
75 players competed in the men's event with 72 from the United States and three from Canada. George Lyon of Canada won the Gold medal while Team USA bagged silver and bronze medals. No playoffs were held for the bronze medal match. In the team's event, USA bagged all three medals.
Golf was reintroduced in the Olympics a century later in 2016. Team USA's Matt Kuchar won the Bronze medal as English Golfer Justin Rose bagged the gold at the Olympic Golf Course, Barra da Tijuca. In the women's event, Team USA failed to win a medal.
In 2020, Xander Scahuffele of the United States clinched the gold medal by one stroke over Rory Sabbatini at Kasumigaseki Country Club, Kawagoe. Nelly Korda won the gold medal in the women's event.
Scottie Scheffler has won the gold medal at the ongoing 2024 Paris Olympics at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. The women's event will be held from August 7th to 10th at the same venue.
A look at the individual Olympics medal winners at Golf for Team USA
Team USA has won a total of 11 medals comprising three gold, two silver and three bronze medals in the men's individual competition from 1900 to 2024. The medal winners are as follows:
1900 Paris
- Gold Medal: Charles Sands
1904 St. Louis
- Silver Medal: Chandler Egan
- Bronze Medal: Burt McKinnie
- Bronze Medal: Francis Newton
2016 Rio
- Bronze Medal: Matt Kuchar
- Score: (69-70-69-63, 271, -13)
2020 Tokyo
- Gold Medal: Xander Schauffele
- Score: (68-63-68-67, 266, -18)
2024 Paris
- Gold Medal: Scottie Scheffler (United States)
- Score: (67-69-67-62, 265, -19)
Team USA has won a total of four medals comprising two gold, one silver and one bronze in the women's competition from 1900 to 2020. The winners are as follows
1900 Paris
- Gold Medal: Margaret Abbott
- Silver Medal: Pauline Whittier
- Bronze Medal: Daria Pratt
2020 Tokyo
- Gold Medal: Nelly Korda
- Score: (67-62-69-69, 267, -17)
Nelly Korda, Lilia Vu and Rose Zhang will represent Team USA at the women's golf competition at the 2020 Paris Olympics at Le Golf National. Korda has had six wins this year and is ranked No.1 in the Rolex rankings. She'll look to defend her title. Vu is ranked second while Zhang is ranked 9th.
