American Bubba Watson and Swede Henrik Stenson head an Olympic men’s golf field that has been decimated by withdrawals but nonetheless still includes a decent list of world-class players.
On the women’s side, an almost full-strength line-up will include world number one Lydia Ko of New Zealand and number two Brooke Henderson of Canada.
The Olympic qualification period for Rio, based on the world rankings, ended on Sunday and the International Golf Federation subsequently submitted the 60 male and 60 female qualifiers to their various national Olympic bodies for official ratification.
The official teams will be announced next Monday. Few if any changes are expected.
Recent publicity has focussed on the ever-growing list of men who have ruled themselves out, including the top four in the world rankings, Australian Jason Day, Americans Dustin Johnson and Jordan Spieth, and Irishman Rory McIlroy.
Most of the players who withdrew cited concerns over Zika, a mosquito-borne virus that the World Health Organization says is spreading rapidly in the Americas.
