PHOTOS: Check out the best pics of golfers dressed for the Olympics

It’s time for the world’s top golfers to go for gold as the 2024 Olympics cranks up a notch in Paris.

For the third successive Games, some of the best players in the game will attempt to add to their countries’ medal haul.

Whilst the format is – to the chagrin of many – no different than the type of golf seen week in and week out on the PGA Tour (i.e. 72-hole strokeplay), there is an unusual look at feel to the competition, as the 60 players in each of the men’s and women’s fields ditch their usual apparel and golf bags in favour of their national colours.

For example, for one week only, Nike athlete Rory McIlroy is wearing the unmistakable logo of the ‘Swoosh’s biggest rival Adidas.

Here’s a flavour of the sights so far…

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Golfers at the 2024 Olympics: In pictures

Team Ireland duo Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy. (Credit: Getty Images)

The four men who will represent Team USA – Wyndham Clark, Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa and Xander Schauffele – pose in their snazzy J Lindeberg outfits. (Credit: @OlympicGolf)

Corey Conners of Team Canada is the middle of an excellent season on the PGA Tour. George Lyon won gold for Canada at the 1904 Olympics in St Louis. Could Conners emulate him 120 years on in Paris? (Credit: Getty Images)

Min Woo Lee is one of two Australians in the men’s field at Le Golf National. Fun fact: there has never been an Australian Olympic medallist in golf. (Credit: Getty Images)

European Ryder Cup hero Sepp Straka – pictured here with his American caddie Duane Bock – is one of Team Austria’s best medal hopes at Paris 2024. The Austrians have won only one gold in the last four Games combined. (Credit: Getty Images)

Tom Kim (left) and Byeong Hun-An will set out to emulate compatriot Inbee Park, who won gold for South Korea in the women’s golf event at Rio in 2016.

Finland hasn’t won a gold medal at the Summer Olympics since 2008 in Beijing. Could Sami Valimaki or Tapio Pulkkanen change that in Paris? (Credit: Getty Images)