Joost Luiten has confirmed he has won his court case against the Netherlands Olympic Committee and Netherlands Sports Federation, and will now be able to compete in the Olympic Golf Tournament in Paris this August.
Luiten, 38, is a six-time winner on the DP World Tour and he was fully exempt to compete in the 60-man Olympic Golf Tournament based on his ranking of 40th in the Olympic Golf Ranking (OGR) by the cut-off point.
However, the Netherlands Olympic Committee / Dutch Sports Federation had other ideas as they set up internal standards in place whereby if they did not believe you had a “realistic chance” of finishing in the top eight in the Olympics, then you would be denied a place in the Games.
Luiten told GolfMagic last week that their decision was ‘complete bulls**t’ and that he was very much intending to fight his case to play in the Olympics.
Fast forward a few days, and Luiten has now won his case and can prepare to compete in a second Olympic Golf event.
He finished T27 on Olympic debut in 2016.
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