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The women’s Olympic golf competition begins on Wednesday at Le Golf National in Paris, with American Nelly Korda competing as defending gold medalist.

Korda, the current world number 1, defeated Japan’s Mone Inami and New Zealand’s Lydia Ko by one stroke at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Ko won bronze in Tokyo in 2016 and silver in Rio.

Korda will be part of the sixth group teeing off at 3:55 a.m. ET on Wednesday when she plays with Jin Young Ko of Korea and Ruoning Yin of China. Korda has won six times on the LPGA Tour this season, including the Chevron Championship, the second major title of her career.

Lilia Vu (5:55 a.m. ET) and Rose Zhang (3:44 a.m. ET) are the other two Americans in the 60-player field.

Frenchwoman Céline Boutier, ranked seventh in the world, will begin her first round in a group with Vu and Amy Yang.

Here’s a look at the tee times for the first two rounds of the women’s Olympic golf competition at Le Golf National.

Tee times for rounds 1 and 2 in Olympic women’s golf

All times ET

03:00 am/04:55 am: Perrine Delacour (France), Stephanie Meadow (Ireland), Manon de Roey (Belgium)

03:11 am/05:06 am: Pei-yun Chien (Chinese Taipei), Nanna Koerstz Madsen (Denmark), Anne van Dam (Netherlands)

03:22 am/05:17 am: Aditi Ashok (India), Gaby Lopez (Mexico), Esther Henseleit (Germany)

03:33 am/05:33 am: Shannon Tan (Singapore), Maria Fassi (Mexico), Celine Borge (Norway)

03:44 am/05:44 am: Hannah Green (Australia), Charley Hull (Great Britain), Rose Zhang (USA)

03:55 am/05:55 am: Nelly Korda (USA), Jin Young Ko (Korea), Ruoning Yin (China)

04:11 am/06:06 am: Hyo Joo Kim (Korea), Brooke Henderson (Canada), Xiyu Janet Lin (China)

04:22 am/06:17 am: Patty Tavatanakit (Thailand), Linn Grant (Sweden), Carlota Ciganda (Spain)

04:33 am/06:28 am: Alessandra Fanali (Italy), Ashley Lau (Malaysia), Ursula Wikstrom (Finland)

04:44 am/06:39 am: Dottie Ardina (Philippines), Noora Komulainen (Finland), Madelene Stavnar (Norway)

4:55 am/3 am: Wei-Ling Hsu (Chinese Taipei), Diksha Dagar (India), Emma Spitz (Austria)

05:06 am/03:11 am: Azahara Munoz (Spain), Bianca Pagdanganan (Philippines), Morgane Metraux (Switzerland)

05:17 am/03:22 am: Alexandra Forsterling (Germany), Albane Valenzuela (Switzerland), Emily Kristine Pedersen (Denmark)

05:33 am/03:33 am: Klara Davidson Spilkova (Czech Republic), Paula Reto (South Africa), Mariajo Uribe (Colombia)

05:44 am/03:44 am: Yuka Saso (Japan), Minjee Lee (Australia), Atthaya Thitikul (Thailand)

05:55 am/03:55 am: Celine Boutier (France), Lilia Vu (USA), Amy Yang (Korea)

06:06 am/04:11 am: Lydia Ko (New Zealand), Miyu Yamashita (Japan), Maja Stark (Sweden)

06:17 am/04:22 am: Leona Maguire (Ireland), Georgia Hall (Great Britain), Ashleigh Buhai (South Africa)

06:28 am/04:33 am: Ana Belac (Slovenia), Sara Kouskova (Czech Republic), Alena Sharp (Canada)

06:39 am/04:44 am: Ines Laklalech (Morocco), Sarah Schober (Austria), Pia Babnik (Slovenia)

Golf is part of the Olympic Games for the third year in a row. After being played at the 1900 and 1904 Olympic Games, it was not included again until 2016 in Rio.

As with the men, the women’s tournaments are played in 72-hole stroke play. There is no cut, so each of the 60 participating women can play all four rounds.

The women’s tournament ends on Saturday. In the men’s competition, American Scottie Scheffler won gold, Briton Tommy Fleetwood took silver and Hideki Matsuyama from Japan took bronze.