The Asian Tour will have another chance to see one of its players win an Olympic medal this week for the first time, with the men’s golf tournament teeing off on Thursday at Le Golf National, on the outskirts of Paris.

A wealth of Asian Tour players are competing including four past Asian Tour Order of Merit (OOM) champions: Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Gavin Green from Malaysia, India’s Shubhankar Sharma and Tom Kim from Korea.

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, FRANCE – JULY 30: Phachara Khongwatmai and Kiradech Aphibarnrat of Thailand on the first tee prior to the 2024 Paris Olympics at Le Golf National on July 30, 2024 in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Ile-de-France. (Photo by Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR/IGF)

In addition, Asian Tour tournament winners Carlos Ortiz from Mexico, Spaniard David Puig, India’s Gaganjeet Bhullar, plus Phachara Khongwatmai from Thailand, have also qualified.

Chile’s Joaquin Niemann is one of seven current Asian Tour members who will be in action; the others are Puig, Ortiz, Kiradech, Green, Bhullar, and Phachara.

Kiradech, Green and Bhullar have been drawn in the same group for the first two days and will start at 10.30am local time on day one.

Kiradech is the Asian Tour member to have come closest to winning a medal, having tied for fifth in Rio in 2016. Asian Tour member Marcus Fraser from Australia was also fifth that year.

Impressively, this is Green’s third successive Olympics having been at the Rio and Tokyo games, while both Ortiz and Niemann took part in Tokyo. The others are all making their debuts.

SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, FRANCE – JULY 31: Gavin Kyle Green of Team Malaysia poses by the Olympic rings prior to the 2024 Paris Olympics at Le Golf National on July 31, 2024 in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Ile-de-France. (Photo by Ben Jared/PGA TOUR/IGF)

American Scott Scheffler, the world number one and Masters champion, is playing with Ireland’s Rory McIlroy and Sweden’s Ludvig Åberg in one of the marquee groups, teeing off at 10:11 a.m. Paris time.

Xander Schauffele, riding the crest of a wave after claiming his second Major of the season at The Open, is the defending gold medalist from Tokyo and will play alongside Norway’s Viktor Hovland and Spain’s Jon Rahm starting at 11:55 a.m. in Paris. Rahm is also in fine form having just won LIV Golf UK.

The 60-player field will play four rounds at stroke play.