It was not immediately clear what impact Joost Luiten’s court victory would have on the two other Dutch golfers who qualified for Paris – Darius van Driel on the men’s side and Dewi Weber for the women.
Due to the Netherlands’ separate qualification rules for golf, only one of the nation’s four eligible golfers will represent the Dutch at the Olympics.
For at least two of the 132 competitors at the Forest of Arden in the English Midlands, the €1 million event is going to be a special occasion no matter how well or badly each performs.
Joost Luiten’s winning edge at the close of the European Tour’s inaugural NBO Oman Open was a reasonably comfortable two shots. But it was even closer than that.