Dutch golfers blast Olympic committee after being denied Paris spot despite meeting qualifications

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Three Dutch golfers will be watching the 2024 Olympic Games from home despite qualifying for the Games after their Olympic committee said their world rankings suggest they would not have a realistic chance to compete. 

Joost Luiten, 38, is a six-time winner on the European Tour and has qualified for 21 majors in his career. He is currently ranked No. 147 in the world and No. 40 in the Olympic rankings. He met the qualifications to compete in Paris next month, but was told this week that he would not be going.

Joost Luiten of The Netherlands looks on during the first round of the KLM Open at The International on June 20, 2024 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  (Octavio Passos/Getty Images)

"I am very sad to say I wil not play the 2024 Olympics. The [Netherlands Olympic Committee/Dutch Sports Federation] wil not send me even though I have qualified by the international golf federations criteria and the Olympic criteria," he wrote in a post on Instagram Tuesday.

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"[The NOCNSF] have their own criteria (good chance to finish top 8) and they don’t think I have a chance to finish in the top 8 of The Olympics (60men field) even though over my 18 year professional career I have finished inside of the top 10 almost 20% of the time and those were 156 man fields. This was 25% in the 2023 season" 

He called the decision "mind bowling," and blasted the Dutch Olympic committee as having "absolutely no clue about golf."

The Netherlands Golf Federation said in a statement Tuesday it presented "extensive arguments and data" in a June 14 meeting with the Dutch committee, hopeful of showing unique