The men's golf event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be held at Le Golf National from August 1. The field is made up of 60 players, with Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele as the main favorites.Scheffler and Schauffele, in that order, lead the odds to win the gold medal in Paris. According to oddsmaker Oddschecker, Scheffler is +400, while Schauffele follows at +650.Both players have dominated the professional circuits in 2024. Scheffler has won six PGA Tour events, including the Masters, the Players Championship and four Signature events. Schauffele, on the other hand, has won two major championships this season and finished in the top 10 in the other two. His season results include 12 top-10s and two second-place finishes.Schauffele also enters the Olympic event as the defending champion, having won the gold medal three years ago in Japan. There, Schauffele finished at 18-under, one stroke ahead of Rory Sabatini.The United States swept Olympic golf in Tokyo, as Nelly Korda also won the women's gold medal.Overall, there have been only four golf events in Olympic history (1900, 1904, 2016, 2021). The United States dominates the historical medal count with 5 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze medals.The odds for the 2024 Olympic golfAccording to Oddschecker, the third player with the best odds to win the Olympic golf competition is Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman, who has two wins on the PGA Tour and one on the DP World Tour in 2024, has odds of +800.Here are the odds for the rest of the Paris 2024 field:Ludvig Aberg +1200Collin Morikawa +1400Jon Rahm +1500Tommy Fleetwood +2200Viktor Hovland +2200Hideki Matsuyama +2500Shane Lowry +2800Joaquin Niemann +2900Joohyung Kim +3000Corey Conners +3300Matt Fitzpatrick +3500Min Woo Lee +4500Alex Noren +5000Carlos Ortiz +5000Sepp Straka +5000Wyndham Clark +5000Byeong-Hun An +6500Abraham Ancer +6600Jason Day +6600Matthieu Pavon +6600Adrian Meronk +8000Christiaan Bezuidenhout +8000Nicolai Hojgaard +8000Thomas Detry +8000Ryan Fox +9000Guido Migliozzi +10000Mito Pereira +10000Stephan Jaeger +10000Thorbjorn Olesen +10000Victor Perez +10000David Puig +12500Erik van Rooyen +12500Keita Nakajima +12500Emiliano Grillo +15000Joost Luiten +15000Kevin Yu +15000Matteo Manassero +15000Nick Taylor +15000Sami Valimaki +17500C.T. Pan +20000Kiradech Aphibarnrat +20000Alejandro Tosti +25000Gavin Green +25000Matti Schmid +25000Shubhankar Sharma +25000Adrien Dumont De Chassart +30000Cristobal Del Solar +30000Darius Van Driel +30000Nico Echavarria +32000Phachara Khongwatmai +32000Daniel Hillier +35000Fabrizio Zanotti +35000Kristoffer Ventura +40000Carl Yuan +50000Gaganjeet Bhullar +50000Zecheng Dou +50000Rafael Campos +65000Camilo Villegas +70000The men's golf tournament in Paris 2024 is scheduled for August 1–4 while the women's event will be held from August 7 to 10.