Your guide to all you need to know about the Women's Golf event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Olympic Golf format

The Olympic golf competition is the same for both men and women - a 72-hole individual stroke play with four rounds over four consecutive days.

The women's event takes place from August 4 - August 7. As with all stroke play events, the lowest score after four rounds will be the winner and receive the gold medal.

All rounds will be played in groups of three, starting on the first tee. This will only change if there are delays due to the weather.

See the groups for rounds 1 and 2 below. For rounds 3 and 4, groupings will be done according to cumulative score at the end of the previous round, with the leaders (lowest cumulative scores) teeing off last.

The women's golf Olympic field

Rio 2016 Olympics Golf
Lydia Ko, Inbee Park and Shanshan Feng - Rio 2016

Sixty players will be taking to the course this week. The final line-up was announced on July 6.

The top-15 world-ranked players are eligible for the Olympics, with a limit of four players from a given country. Beyond the top-15, players are eligible based on the world rankings, with a maximum of two eligible players from each country that does not already have two or more players among the top-15. The host country is guaranteed a spot, as is each of the five continents of the Olympics.

The field includes the medal winners from Rio 2016 - Inbee Park (Gold), Lydia Ko (Silver) and Shanshan Feng (Bronze).

Find out who is the final field for the women's Olympic golf event here.

Venue - Kasumigaseki Country Club

Kasumigaseki Country Club is located in Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture. The course extends out across the beautiful Musashino Hills. Founded in 1929, the club’s history spans over 90 years, hosting several Japanese professional and amateur events, including the then known Canada Cup in 1957. Japan’s Torakichi Nakamura and Koichi Ono won beating American’s Sam Snead and Jimmy Demaret.

Yardage

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34399365
43205187
55558510
64340311
73176161
85544497
94451412
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103172157
114415379
124433396
134381348
145544497
154350320
163168154
174311284
184436399
IN353,2102,934
Total716,6486,076

Korda sisters

Round One Tee Times

There is an eight hour time difference from the UK to Toyko and 13 hours if you are on the east coast of America. Times below are local time and BST.

7:30am/11:30pm BST - Mone Inami JPN, Maria Fassi MEX, Albane Valenzuela SUI
7:41am/11.40pm - Kelly Tan MAS, Alena Sharp CAN, Anne van Dam NED
7:52am/11:52pm - Leona Maguire IRL, Bianca Pagdanganan PHI, Matilda Castren FIN
8:03/12:03am - Mel Reid GBR, Caroline Masson GER, Anna Nordqvist SWE
8:14/12:14am - Nasa Hataoka JPN, Jin Young Ko KOR, Nelly Korda USA
8:25/12:25am - Brooke Henderson CAN, Lexi Thompson USA, Yuka Saso PHI
8:41/12:41am - Inbee Park KOR, Lydia Ko NZL, Shanshan Feng CHN
8:52/12:52am - Sanna Nuutinen FIN, Maria Torres PUR, Tiffany Chan HKG
9:03/01:03am - Klara Spilkova CZE, Manon de Roey BEL, Christine Wolf AUT
9:14/01:14am - Maha Haddioui MAR, Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso ITA, Daniela Darquea ECU
9:25/01:25am - Nanna Koerstz Madsen DEN, Aditi Ashok IND, Giulia Molinaro ITA
9:36/01:36am - Wei-Ling Hsu TPE, Azahara Munoz ESP, Jodi Ewart Shadoff GBR
9:47/01:47am - Xiyu Lin CHN, Emily Kristine Pedersen DEN, Madelene Sagstrom SWE
10:03/02:03am - Jessica Korda USA, Celine Boutier FRA, Gaby Lopez MEX
10:14/02:14am - Minjee Lee AUS, Patty Tavatanakit THA, Sophia Popov GER
10:25/02:25am - Ariya Jutanugarn THA, Hyojoo Kim KOR, Carlota Ciganda ESP
10:36/02:36am - Danielle Kang USA, Hannah Green AUS, Sei Young Kim KOR
10:47/02:47am - Min Lee TPE, Stephanie Meadow IRL, Perrine Delacour FRA
10:58/02:58am - Mariajo Uribe COL, Pia Babnik SLO, Magdalena Simmermacher ARG
11:09/03:09am - Diksha Dagar IND, Kim Metraux SUI, Tonje Daffinrud NOR

Round Two Tee Times

7:30am/11:30pm BST - Nanna Koerstz Madsen DEN, Aditi Ashok IND, Giulia Molinaro ITA
7:41am/11.40pm - Wei-Ling Hsu TPE, Azahara Munoz ESP, Jodi Ewart Shadoff GBR
7:52am/11:52pm - Xiyu Lin CHN, Emily Kristine Pedersen DEN, Madelene Sagstrom SWE
8:03/12:03am - Jessica Korda USA, Celine Boutier FRA, Gaby Lopez MEX
8:14/12:14am - Minjee Lee AUS, Patty Tavatanakit THA, Sophia Popov GER
8:25/12:25am - Ariya Jutanugarn THA, Hyojoo Kim KOR, Carlota Ciganda ESP
8:41/12:41am - Danielle Kang USA, Hannah Green AUS, Sei Young Kim KOR
8:52/12:52am - Min Lee TPE, Stephanie Meadow IRL, Perrine Delacour FRA
9:03/01:03am - Mariajo Uribe COL, Pia Babnik SLO, Magdalena Simmermacher ARG
9:14/01:14am - Diksha Dagar IND, Kim Metraux SUI, Tonje Daffinrud NOR
9:25/01:25am - Mone Inami JPN, Maria Fassi MEX, Albane Valenzuela SUI
9:36/01:36am - Kelly Tan MAS, Alena Sharp CAN, Anne van Dam NED
9:47/01:47am - Leona Maguire IRL, Bianca Pagdanganan PHI, Matilda Castren FIN
10:03/02:03am - Mel Reid GBR, Caroline Masson GER, Anna Nordqvist SWE
10:14/02:14am - Nasa Hataoka JPN, Jin Young Ko KOR, Nelly Korda USA
10:25/02:25am - Brooke Henderson CAN, Lexi Thompson USA, Yuka Saso PHI
10:36/02:36am - Inbee Park KOR, Lydia Ko NZL, Shanshan Feng CHN
10:47/02:47am - Sanna Nuutinen FIN, Maria Torres PUR, Tiffany Chan HKG
10:58/02:58am - Klara Spilkova CZE, Manon de Roey BEL, Christine Wolf AUT
11:09/03:09am - Maha Haddioui MAR, Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso ITA, Daniela Darquea ECU

You can follow live scoring of women's Olympic golf event here.

Players to watch out for...

Nasa Hataoka
Japan's Nasa Hataoka

Buoyed by Xander Schauffele's gold medal win, we'd expect another strong showing from Team USA - both the Korda sisters are playing well with Nelly still sitting at the top of the World Golf Rankings. We'd expect the Rio 2016 grouping for the first two rounds - Park, Ko and Feng - to start strongly and there's no doubt when it comes to passion for playing for their country Mel Reid has to be near the top of the list.

We should also not discount home advantage, although there are very few spectators we're sure Japan's Nasa Hataoka and Mone Inami will rise to the occasion and hope to go at least one better than fellow countryman Hideki Matsuyama.

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