Xander Schauffele will continue to defend his Olympic title in the third round at the Golf National in Paris, alongside Britain's Tommy Fleetwood and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama. All three players are 11 under after 36 holes in the men's golf tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics and will tee off at 12:39 p.m. local time, with Jon Rahm two shots behind in fourth place.
Thomas Detry of Belgium, who shot an 8-under 63 (the lowest score of the day on Friday), will join Spanish major champion and defending bronze medalist Pan Cheng-tai of Chinese Taipei in the penultimate three-ball match at 12:28 p.m.
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (T10) is five points behind halfway pace, and Chile's Joaquin Niemann and South Africa's Eric van Rooyen will join at 12:06 p.m.
Rory McIlroy (T13) is one shot behind in a group with Australia's Jason Day and Canada's Corey Conners. The trio will begin play at 11:44 a.m.
Here is a complete list of kick-off times for Saturday's third-round matches at the 2024 Olympics:
- 9:00am: Kiradech Aphibarnrat (Thailand), Daniel Hillier (New Zealand), Camilo Villegas (Colombia)
- 9:11am: Mito Pereira (Chile), Phachara Khongwatmai (Thailand), Matthieu Pavon (France)
- 9:22am: Adrian Meronk (Poland), Gaganjeet Bhullar (India), Viktor Hovland (Norway)
- 9:33am: Matthias Schmid (Germany), Wyndham Clark (USA), Gavin Green (Malaysia)
- 9:44am: Nick Taylor (Canada), Rafa Campos (Puerto Rico), Nico Echavarria (Colombia)
- 9:55am: Yechun Yuan (China), Kevin Yu (Chinese Taipei), Shane Lowry (Ireland)
- 10:11am: Christiaan Bezuidenhout (South Africa), Sepp Straka (Austria), Abraham Ancer (Mexico)
- 10:22am: Emiliano Grillo (Argentina), Alex Noren (Sweden), Min Woo Lee (Australia)
- 10:33am: Adrien Dumont de Chassart (Belgium), Joel Girrbach (Switzerland), Tapio Pulkkanen (Finland)
- 10:44am: Nicolai Højgaard (Denmark), Byeong Hun An (South Korea), Ryan Fox (New Zealand)
