The men's golf event of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is now in the books. The competition was fierce, but in the end, the overwhelming favorite took home the gold medal.American Scottie Scheffler won the gold medal in golf at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with a score of 19 under. Most prediction sites had Scheffler as a heavy favorite to win the title, given his results throughout the season.Scheffler matched the record for the Albatross Course at Le Golf National (9-under 62) to beat the rest of the field and win the gold medal. His performance included nine birdies and no bogeys.Xander Schauffele was the second-highest U.S. finisher on the Olympic leaderboard. Schauffele started the round in a tie for first place at 14-under, but was unable to maintain his pace and dropped to T9.Schauffele's fourth-round performance included three birdies, three bogeys and one double bogey (2-over). His tournament score was 12-over.On the other side of the coin was Wyndham Clark. The 2023 US Open champion started the Olympic event at 4 over in the first round. However, he improved dramatically over the next three days to finish T14 on 11 under.Finally, Collin Morikawa maintained a similar performance throughout the event and finished T24 on 6 under.Paris 2024 Olympic Golf leaderboard at a glanceThe silver and bronze medals went to Tommy Fleetwood of Great Britain and Hideki Matsuyama of Japan, respectively. Victor Perez, Jon Rahm and Rory McIlroy just missed out on the podium.Here are the Olympic golf final leaderboard:1 Scottie Scheffler -192 Tommy Fleetwood -183 Hideki Matsuyama -174 Victor Perez -16T5 Rory McIlroy -15T5 Jon Rahm -157 Nicolai Højgaard -148 Tom Kim -13T9 Corey Conners -12T9 Jason Day -12T9 Joaquín Niemann -12T9 Thomas Detry -12T9 Xander Schauffele -12T14 Wyndham Clark -11T14 Thorbjørn Olesen -1116 Christiaan Bezuidenhout -1017 Erik van Rooyen -9T18 Matteo Manassero -8T18 Alejandro Tosti -8T18 C.T. Pan -8T18 Ludvig Åberg -8T22 Min Woo Lee -7T22 Guido Migliozzi -7T24 Collin Morikawa -6T24 Byeong Hun An -6T26 Matti Schmid -5T26 Shane Lowry -5T26 Carlos Ortiz -5T26 Stephan Jaeger -5T30 Rafael Campos -4T30 Viktor Hovland -4T30 Nick Taylor -4T33 Gavin Green -3T33 Fabrizio Zanotti -3T35 Nico Echavarria -2T35 Tapio Pulkkanen -2T35 Abraham Ancer -2T35 Sepp Straka -2T35 Ryan Fox -2T40 Shubhankar Sharma -1T40 Adrien Dumont de Chassart -1T40 David Puig -1T43 Emiliano Grillo ET43 Kris Ventura ET45 Mito Pereira +1T45 Gaganjeet Bhullar +1T45 Alex Noren +1T45 Sami Välimäki +1T49 Adrian Meronk +3T49 Keita Nakajima +3T49 Joel Girrbach +352 Kevin Yu +453 Zecheng Dou +554 Kiradech Aphibarnrat +655 Daniel Hillier +756 Carl Yuan +857 Camilo Villegas +958 Matthieu Pavon +13Matt Fitzpatrick WDPhachara Khongwatmai WDThe women's event will begin on August 7 at Le Golf National.