The Olympic mens golf competition begins at Kasumigaseki Country Club on July 29th and concludes on August 1st. The womens event, at the same venue, runs from August 4th to the 7th. All competitors must come from the top 60 of the Official World Golf Rankings. Notable absentees are Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Sergio Garcia, Louis OOsthuizen, Martin Kaymer, Tyrell Hatton, Matt Fitzpatrick, Lee Westwood Charley Hull and Georgia Hall.

The 2016 Rio Olympics mens golf medalists Justin Rose, Henrik Stenson and Matt Kuchar will also not be competing.

Mens Event

Argentina Emilliano Grillo

Australia Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman

Austria Matthias Schwab and Sepp Straka

Belgium Thomas Detry and Thomas Pieters

Canada Corey Conners and Mackenzie Hughes

Chile Joaquin Nieman and Mito Pereira

China Can Yuan and Ashun Wu

Colombia Sebastian Munoz

Czech Rep Ondrej Lieser

Denmark Rasmus Hijaard and Joachim B Hansen

Finland Kalle Samooja and Sami Valimaki

France Victor Perez and Antoine Rozner

Germany Maximillian Kiefer and Hurly Long

Great Britain Paul Casey and Tommy Fleetwood

India Aniriban Lahiri

Ireland Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry

Italy Francesco Molinari and Guido Migliozzi

Japan Hideki Matsuyama

S Korea Sung Jae Im and Si Woo Kim

Malaysia Gavin Green

Mexico Abraham Ancer

Norway Viktor Hovland and Kristian K Johanssen

New Zealand Ryan Fox

Paraguay Fabrizio Zanotti

Phillipines Juvic Pagunson

Poland Adria Meronk

Puerto Rico Rafael Campos

Slovakia Rory Sabatini

South Africa Garrick Higho and Christiaan Bezuidenhout

Spain Jon Rahm and Rafa Cabella Bello

Sweden Alex Noren and Henrik Norlander

Taiwan C T Pan

Thailand Jazz Janewottananonand Gunn Charoenkul

USA Justin Thomas, Bryson de Chambeau, Xander Shauffele

and Collin Morikawa

Venezula Jhonattan Vegas

Zimbabwe Scott Vincent

Olympic womens teams to follow