Valhalla Golf Membership in Louisville, Kentucky, will host the 2028 Solheim Cup, it was introduced on Tuesday.
The course hosted the boys’s PGA Championship in Might (gained by Xander Schauffele) and has held three different PGA Championships (1996, 2000 and 2014) in addition to the 2008 Ryder Cup.
“Showcasing our extraordinary athletes at venues which have hosted the world’s largest and most prestigious golf tournaments and which might be recognizable to followers world wide will proceed to raise the LPGA Tour and the Solheim Cup,” LPGA Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan stated in a press release.
The newest main occasion at Valhalla was not with out controversy and tragedy. John Mills, a safety officer working the PGA Championship, was killed when struck by a shuttle bus early Friday morning of the match.
Within the aftermath, however in a roundabout way associated to the tragedy, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler was arrested and charged with not following an officer’s command as he tried to drive by the clubhouse entrance. Costs have been dropped weeks later.
This yr’s Solheim Cup shall be contested at Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership in Gainesville, Virginia, Sept. 13-15. The biennial occasion shall be held within the Netherlands in 2026.
The 2028 taking part in would be the twenty first version of the match that pits a workforce of 12 U.S. gamers towards a workforce of 12 European gamers. Europe has gained or retained the lower every of the final three occasions.
