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Dates
  
28–30 September 2018

2018 Ryder Cup

Venue
  
Le Golf National, Albatros Course

Location
  
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France, France

Captains
  
Thomas Bjørn (Europe) Jim Furyk (USA)

The 42nd Ryder Cup Matches will be held in France from 28–30 September 2018 at the Albatros Course of Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a suburb southwest of Paris. It will be the second Ryder Cup to be held in Continental Europe, after the 1997 contest, which was held in Spain. The United States are the defending champions, but last won in Europe in 1993, a quarter century earlier.

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Format

The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. The competition format will be as follows:

  • Day 1 (Friday) – 4 foursome (alternate shot) matches and 4 fourball (better ball) matches
  • Day 2 (Saturday) – 4 foursome matches and 4 fourball matches
  • Day 3 (Sunday) – 12 singles matches

    • On the first two days there are 4 foursome matches and 4 fourball matches with the home captain choosing which are played in the morning and which in the afternoon.

    With a total of 28 points available, 14½ points are required to win the Cup, and 14 points are required for the defending champion, the United States, to retain the Cup. All matches are played to a maximum of 18 holes.

    Bidding for the 2018 Ryder Cup

    Ryder Cup Europe confirmed originally six countries – France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden – to be interested in bidding for the 2018 Ryder Cup. The deadline for the submission of bids was set for 30 April 2010; Sweden withdrew from the bidding early that month, while the Spanish bidding host city of Tres Cantos showed poor popular support.

    There were five bids to host the event:

  • France: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines | French bid website / French golf federation bid press kit
  • Germany: Neuburg/Rohrenfeld
  • Portugal: Lisbon/Comporta, Alentejo Coast
  • Spain: Madrid/Guadarrama
  • Netherlands: Rotterdam/Lingewaal

    • France were announced as hosts on 17 May 2011, despite calls for the Cup to be held in Spain, as a tribute to the late Seve Ballesteros.

    Europe

    The European team qualification rules were announced on 18 January 2017. There were a number of changes compared to 2016 with an increase in the number of captain's picks from three to four. The team will consist of:

  • The leading four players on the Race to Dubai Points List
  • Points earned in all Race to Dubai tournaments starting with the 2017 D+D Real Czech Masters. Points earned from the 2018 BMW PGA Championship onwards, will be multiplied by 1.5.
  • The leading four players, not qualified above, on the World Points List
  • Total World Points earned in Official World Golf Ranking events starting on 31 August 2017 (the start date of the D+D Real Czech Masters). Points earned from the date of the 2018 BMW PGA Championship onwards, will be multiplied by 1.5. No World points will be earned from tournaments staged opposite Rolex Series tournaments in both 2017 and 2018.
  • Four captain's picks

    • Membership criteria for the European Tour have been reduced from five tournaments to four (outside the majors and WGCs) for the 2018 season. As in previous Ryder Cups, all players must be members of the European Tour to be eligible to play for Europe. Changes were also made to eligibility of future captains and vice-captains.

    United States

    The United States qualification rules were announced on 8 February 2017. The majority of the team will be selected from the Ryder Cup points list which is based on prize money won in important tournaments. Generally one point is awarded for every $1,000 earned. The team will consist of:

  • The leading eight players on the Ryder Cup points list, gained in the following events
  • 2017 major championships
  • 2017 World Golf Championship events and The Players Championship (half points)
  • 2018 major championships (double points for the winner, 50% extra for those who make the cut)
  • 2018 PGA Tour events. Qualifying events in this category are those played between 1 January and 12 August 2018, the date of the PGA Championship, and including the Zurich Classic of New Orleans team event. "Alternate" events (those played opposite a major or WGC event) do not earn points
  • Four captain's picks
  • Three announced after the 2018 Dell Technologies Championship, which concludes on 3 September.
  • One announced after the 2018 BMW Championship, which concludes on 9 September.

    • The qualification rules were similar to those used for the 2016 Ryder Cup. The points given for the current season major championships have been reduced from double to 50% extra (except for the winner who still gets double points). The dates on which the captain's picks are made has also been brought forward by one or two weeks.

    Captains

    Thomas Bjørn was named as the European captain on 6 December 2016. He was chosen by a five-man panel made up of the three most recent European Ryder Cup captains (Darren Clarke, Paul McGinley and José María Olazábal), the Chief Executive of the European Tour, Keith Pelley and European Tour Tournament Committee member Henrik Stenson.

    Jim Furyk was named as the USA captain on 11 January 2017.

    References

    2018 Ryder Cup Wikipedia
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