JP and Adare may have to wait beyond 2026 for Ryder Cup

ADARE Manor Resort owner JP McManus might just have to put his dream of hosting the Ryder Cup in his native county of Limerick on hold, following reports that the 2026 matches could yet be played at Wentworth.

The huge €30 million revamp to the course and facilities at Adare are believed to have been done with the hopes of hosting the event in 2026 but Adare may now have to wait until at least 2030 if the rumours about Wentworth are true.

The idea for the Ryder Cup was conceived at Wentworth in 1926 during a friendly match between the professionals of Great Britain & the USA and there is a dedicated Ryder Cup room in the Wentworth clubhouse displaying several historical items in connection with the event.

However, the first actual Ryder Cup match where the teams competed for the famous trophy donated by Samuel Ryder was played on American soil at the Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts in 1927.

As 2026 would mark the centenary of the conception of the Ryder Cup, it is thought that the overwhelming feeling of the organisers is that it should be played at Wentworth, and as much as I would love to see it coming to Adare it hard to argue with that.

Whistling Straits in Wisconsin is the venue for 2020 matches followed by the Marco Simone Country Club near Rome in 2022 and although the Americans have announced future venues on their side of the pond at Bethpage Black in New York in 2024, Hazeltine in 2028 and the Olympic Club in San Francisco in 2032, Europe have yet to announce a venue beyond 2022, so the wait continues to see if tradition takes the Ryder Cup back to Wentworth its spiritual home, or if J P McManus brings it to Limerick.