What is Ryder Cup?
The Ryder Cup - short for the official name "The Ryder Cup Matches" - is currently the most important international golf event. Since 1927 it takes place every two years and brings together a US and a European team.
The competition usually is performed during the fall season, between September and October, and is played every two years alternately in a European or American city.
How are the teams composed?
Europe and the United States have different criteria for selecting golf players who will defend their colors during the Ryder Cup.
Europe
Since 2018 in the Old Continent are part of team the four players who won the most points in the European tour, four others based on the world ranking and for the last four players the captain has the wild cards at his disposal to complete the team without looking at the rankings.
United States
The selection for American golfers starts with the four major tournaments of the year before and ends in August of the Ryder Cup’s year. The first eight pass automatically; the captain assigns the remaining four seats by wild card at his discretion.
2025: the Ryder Cup in New York
Pennsylvania has won the right to host the 2025 Ryder Cup. The competition will be held in New York and the official venue will be the Black Course at Bethpage State Park.
In September 2025, Bethpage Black will join Oak Hill Country Club as the only New York course to host a Ryder Cup.
The event takes place over six total days, including three days of practice and three days of competition, during which top 12 European golfers and top 12 Americans compete for the prestigious trophy.
Bethpage State Park has earned the reputation as the finest public golf complex in the US.
The facility is comprised of five championship golf courses, among them the legendary Black, which hosted the United States Open Championship in 2002 and 2009, The Barclays in 2012 and 2016, and the PGA Championship in 2019 and will host the Ryder Cup in 2025.
Approximately 300,000 rounds are played annually on the five courses at Bethpage, all of which start from the Clubhouse area.
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