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Performance Data Helps Golfer Win Case to Represent Country at Olympics

The 2024 Paris Olympics were poised to see a familiar face representing Dutch golf – seasoned professional Joost Luiten.

Global Cup - Golf

2025

Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 110 47.2
2 Great Britain 36 15.5
3 South Korea 27 11.4
4 Japan 20 8.6
5 China 12 5.0 1
6 Thailand 12 5.0 -1
7 Canada 7 2.8 2
8 Venezuela 6 2.6
9 Sweden 4 1.7 -2
10 Australia 1 0.2 -2

2024

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 319 37.2
2 Japan 108 12.5 4
3 South Korea 75 8.8
4 Great Britain 62 7.2 -2
5 Thailand 40 4.7 11
6 New Zealand 40 4.7
7 Australia 28 3.3 -2
8 China 24 2.7 1
9 Germany 22 2.6
10 Denmark 20 2.3

2023

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 454 44.7
2 Great Britain 100 9.9
3 South Korea 97 9.5 1
4 Spain 71 7.0 12
5 Australia 71 7.0 -2
6 Japan 47 4.6 -1
7 Norway 42 4.1 4
8 Austria 29 2.9
9 China 28 2.8
10 France 20 2.0 5

2022

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 399 39.4
2 Great Britain 169 16.7 3
3 Australia 111 10.9 3
4 South Korea 81 8.0 3
5 Japan 52 5.1 -2
6 Canada 35 3.5 12
7 Ireland 31 3.0 5
8 Chile 22 2.2 13
9 South Africa 20 2.0 -7
10 Thailand 18 1.8 -2

2021

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Top Positions Points % Chg
1 United States 486 39.0
2 South Africa 100 8.0 3
3 Japan 92 7.4 3
4 Spain 76 6.1 6
5 Great Britain 67 5.4 -1
6 Australia 48 3.9 -3
7 South Korea 45 3.6 -5
8 Thailand 39 3.2
9 Sweden 33 2.6 2
10 Slovakia 32 2.6

Per Capita Cup - Golf

2025

Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Great Britain 1823556
2 South Korea 1941366
3 Sweden 2520349
4 United States 2976737 1
5 Canada 5644800 2
6 Japan 6333500 -2
7 Australia 49374600 -1
8 China 120607826

2024

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 New Zealand 120659
2 Ireland 264332
3 Denmark 288035
4 Norway 439814 -3
5 Sweden 630087 3
6 South Korea 684428 -2
7 Australia 881689 -4
8 United States 1021263 -1
9 Great Britain 1067447 -3
10 Japan 1176501 1

2023

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Norway 125661 3
2 Austria 303251
3 Australia 347708
4 South Korea 532202 3
5 Spain 655338 10
6 Great Britain 656480
7 United States 718486 3
8 Sweden 1260175
9 Switzerland 1408098
10 Canada 2293200 1

2022

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Ireland 155151
2 Slovenia 172158
3 Australia 223414 3
4 Norway 293209
5 New Zealand 301648 -3
6 Great Britain 387794 5
7 South Korea 632350 5
8 Sweden 758816 -3
9 Chile 789720 5
10 United States 816681 -1

2021

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Top Positions People Per Point Chg
1 Ireland 153483
2 New Zealand 155689 1
3 Slovakia 169854
4 Denmark 250465
5 Sweden 308614
6 Australia 514319 -4
7 South Africa 565219
8 Spain 612223
9 United States 671145 -5
10 Taiwan 981561

Golf Tournaments

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PGA Championship 18 May 2025
Chevron 28 Apr 2025
Masters 13 Apr 2025
Women's British Op... 25 Aug 2024
British Open 21 Jul 2024
Evian Championship 14 Jul 2024
LPGA Championship 23 Jun 2024
Golf: US Open 16 Jun 2024
Golf : US Women's... 2 Jun 2024
PGA Championship 19 May 2024
Olympics 21 Apr 2024
Chevron 21 Apr 2024
Masters 14 Apr 2024

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Women's British Op... 13 Aug 2023
Evian Championship 30 Jul 2023
British Open 23 Jul 2023
Golf : US Women's... 9 Jul 2023
LPGA Championship 25 Jun 2023
Golf: US Open 18 Jun 2023
PGA Championship 21 May 2023
Chevron 23 Apr 2023
Masters 9 Apr 2023
Women's British Op... 7 Aug 2022
Evian Championship 24 Jul 2022
British Open 17 Jul 2022
LPGA Championship 26 Jun 2022
K. Bradley (USA) wins the PGA Grand Slam at Southampton, Bermuda

Golf Global Cup 2011: Oriental Tigers in pursuit of the Masters
That Golf is one of the world’s elite sports is confirmed by some of the facts of the 2011 Golf Global Cup.
Tiger Woods of the USA

Major Golfing Competitions

The GSN Global Cup and Annual Ranking feature the world’s top men and ladies tournaments for prestige and prize money: The British and the US Open Championships, the PGA a...

Colin Montgomerie of England

Golf Numbers
 You can trust GSN to dig up some interesting stats from the world of golfing competitions. Here’s a selection to whet the appetite:

Golf: the sport
Golf is a sport in which players using many types of clubs including woods, irons, and putters, attempt to hit a ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible nu...
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Golfing Equipment
Outside of the UK and USA, where well-kept municipal courses abound and green fees are accessible, golf is still something of an elite sport because of the high costs of equip...
Annika Sorenstam of Sweden

Golf Champions
The field of winners in the four major men’s championships (the Masters, the US Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship) which constitute the elite in world golf is...
Jack Nicklaus swings

How to improve your game
Golf is one of those sports that consists of essentially unnatural body movements, requiring great balance and coordination.
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The History of Golf
When was the first game of golf played? Forget wild suggestions of Mongol warlords tossing about their vanquished enemies’ heads with sticks.
The 8th at Pebble Beach

Golfing locations
One of the greatest pleasures of golf is being out there on a course, lost in a sea of green fringed by trees and natural ondulations, trying to become one with club and ball...