2024 Olympics golf early odds: Top picks, Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler's predictions explored

The men's golf event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be held at Le Golf National from August 1. The field is made up of 60 players, with Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele as the main favorites.

Scheffler and Schauffele, in that order, lead the odds to win the gold medal in Paris. According to oddsmaker Oddschecker, Scheffler is +400, while Schauffele follows at +650.

Both players have dominated the professional circuits in 2024. Scheffler has won six PGA Tour events, including the Masters, the Players Championship and four Signature events. Schauffele, on the other hand, has won two major championships this season and finished in the top 10 in the other two. His season results include 12 top-10s and two second-place finishes.

Schauffele also enters the Olympic event as the defending champion, having won the gold medal three years ago in Japan. There, Schauffele finished at 18-under, one stroke ahead of Rory Sabatini.

The United States swept Olympic golf in Tokyo, as Nelly Korda also won the women's gold medal.

Overall, there have been only four golf events in Olympic history (1900, 1904, 2016, 2021). The United States dominates the historical medal count with 5 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze medals.

The odds for the 2024 Olympic golf

According to Oddschecker, the third player with the best odds to win the Olympic golf competition is Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman, who has two wins on the PGA Tour and one on the DP World Tour in 2024, has odds of +800.

Here are the odds for the rest of the Paris 2024 field:

Ludvig Aberg +1200
Collin Morikawa +1400
Jon Rahm +1500
Tommy Fleetwood +2200
Viktor Hovland +2200
Hideki Matsuyama +2500
Shane Lowry +2800
Joaquin Niemann +2900
Joohyung Kim +3000
Corey Conners +3300
Matt Fitzpatrick +3500
Min Woo Lee +4500
Alex Noren +5000
Carlos Ortiz +5000
Sepp Straka +5000
Wyndham Clark +5000
Byeong-Hun An +6500
Abraham Ancer +6600
Jason Day +6600
Matthieu Pavon +6600
Adrian Meronk +8000
Christiaan Bezuidenhout +8000
Nicolai Hojgaard +8000
Thomas Detry +8000
Ryan Fox +9000
Guido Migliozzi +10000
Mito Pereira +10000
Stephan Jaeger +10000
Thorbjorn Olesen +10000
Victor Perez +10000
David Puig +12500
Erik van Rooyen +12500
Keita Nakajima +12500
Emiliano Grillo +15000
Joost Luiten +15000
Kevin Yu +15000
Matteo Manassero +15000
Nick Taylor +15000
Sami Valimaki +17500
C.T. Pan +20000
Kiradech Aphibarnrat +20000
Alejandro Tosti +25000
Gavin Green +25000
Matti Schmid +25000
Shubhankar Sharma +25000
Adrien Dumont De Chassart +30000
Cristobal Del Solar +30000
Darius Van Driel +30000
Nico Echavarria +32000
Phachara Khongwatmai +32000
Daniel Hillier +35000
Fabrizio Zanotti +35000
Kristoffer Ventura +40000
Carl Yuan +50000
Gaganjeet Bhullar +50000
Zecheng Dou +50000
Rafael Campos +65000
Camilo Villegas +70000

The men's golf tournament in Paris 2024 is scheduled for August 1–4 while the women's event will be held from August 7 to 10.