You searched it. Half the golf world searched it. Somewhere around the middle of September every year, the brain of the average golfer starts making that low humming noise it makes when it expects flags, chants, and grown men crying on a first tee in matching pants. So you typed it in. Is there a Ryder Cup this year?
No. There is not. There is no Ryder Cup in 2026, and you have not missed it, and it is not on some channel you do not get. It simply is not happening this year, and the reason is boring enough that almost nobody remembers it.
Here is the short version, and then the much better news about what is actually on your television over the next two weeks, because September is still loaded.
The Ryder Cup Is On Odd Years Now
That is the whole answer. The Ryder Cup lives on odd-numbered years, so the last one was 2025 and the next one is 2027. If you are reading this in an even year, there is no Ryder Cup, and there will not be one until the calendar flips.
The last one was at Bethpage Black on Long Island, September 26 through 28 of 2025, and Europe won it 15 to 13 on American soil. If you watched that Sunday you already know it was not a quiet afternoon. If you skipped it, you now know why your buddy who went to Bethpage has not shut up about the drive out there since.
The next one is at Adare Manor in County Limerick, Ireland. The matches run Friday September 17 through Sunday September 19 of 2027. Yes, Ireland. Yes, it is going to look unbelievable on television. Yes, every single person you golf with is going to announce they are going and then not go.
Why It Keeps Moving Around
This is the part that confuses people, and it confuses them because the Ryder Cup has genuinely switched years twice in most of our golfing lives.
For decades it ran on odd years. Then the 2001 matches were postponed in the wake of September 11 and pushed to 2002, and the whole thing slid onto even years. That is the version most of us grew up with. Valhalla, Celtic Manor, Medinah, Gleneagles, Hazeltine, Paris, all even.
Then 2020 happened. The Ryder Cup was supposed to be at Whistling Straits that September, and it got postponed to 2021 because there was no realistic way to put tens of thousands of screaming fans on a Wisconsin hillside that year. The entire schedule shifted a year again, which is how we ended up back on odd years. Whistling Straits in 2021, Rome in 2023, Bethpage in 2025, Adare Manor in 2027.
So the Ireland matches you may have vaguely remembered being penciled in for 2026 are real. They just moved to 2027. Your memory is fine. The calendar moved out from under it.
The Good News: The Presidents Cup Is In Two Weeks
Here is why this whole question matters less than you think. In an even year, American team golf has its own event, and this one is a short drive from a whole lot of our customers.
The Presidents Cup runs Thursday September 24 through Sunday September 27 at Medinah Country Club, just outside Chicago. Brandt Snedeker captains the United States. Geoff Ogilvy captains the Internationals. Same general idea as the Ryder Cup, which is the point. Team golf, match play, no prize money, a lot of yelling.
The difference is who the Americans play. Instead of Europe, the United States faces a team made up of the best players from everywhere except Europe. Australia, South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Chile, and so on. It is a genuinely fun collection of players, and they are chasing something the Ryder Cup crowd never has to think about.
Because the record is lopsided. The United States leads the all-time series 12 wins to 1, with one tie. The Internationals have won exactly once, in 1998 at Royal Melbourne, and they won that one in a walk. The 2003 matches ended in a draw when the captains agreed to stop at dark. Every other edition has gone to the Americans.
That sounds like a reason to skip it. It is not. It is the reason to watch it. Nobody is more dangerous than a team that has been hearing about the same statistic for twenty five years, and Medinah has a history of team golf getting strange in a hurry. That course has watched an eight point lead evaporate on a Sunday before.
And There Is Golf This Weekend Too
You do not have to wait two weeks. The FedExCup Fall opens Thursday with a brand new tournament, and it is a good one.
The Biltmore Championship in Asheville runs September 17 through 20 at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove in Arden, North Carolina. It is the first PGA Tour event in the Asheville area in more than eighty years, it is playing for five million dollars, and the course sits in a valley up against Pisgah National Forest with the Blue Ridge Parkway running past it. Mountain golf in late September. It is going to be the best looking broadcast of the fall by a mile.
The fall events do not carry the weight of a major, and everyone knows it. What they carry is careers. These are the weeks where guys on the wrong side of the number play for their status, which means somebody in the final group on Sunday is playing for his entire next season. That produces better television than a runaway win by a superstar, every single time.
The women just finished their team week too. The Solheim Cup wrapped up Sunday at Bernardus Golf in the Netherlands, with Angela Stanford leading the Americans and Anna Nordqvist leading Europe. If you slept on it, the highlights are worth an hour.
So What Do You Actually Watch
Short version of the next two weeks, in order.
- This Thursday through Sunday. Biltmore Championship, Asheville. New event, great scenery, guys playing for their jobs.
- The following week. Nothing that demands your Sunday. Use it. Play golf yourself instead of watching it.
- September 24 through 27. Presidents Cup at Medinah. Clear the weekend. This is the team golf your brain was asking for when you searched the Ryder Cup.
- September 2027. Adare Manor. Start lying to your wife about the trip now so she has time to get used to the idea.
Dress For The Couch, Because That Is Where You Will Be
Here is the part nobody says out loud about team golf weekends. You are not going to Medinah. You are going to be on a couch, in a chair, or in somebody's garage with the door open and the game on, from roughly nine in the morning until somebody remembers to order food.
Which is the best argument we know for a good graphic tee. Almost every course in America wants a collar on you at the first tee, so a tee shirt is not what you play in. It is what you watch in, tailgate in, and stand around a grill in. Off the course is where the shirt actually does its job, and a full Saturday of match play is peak off-course golf.
If you lean patriotic for Presidents Cup week, the USA Flag Clubs and Stars tee is the obvious pull, and the USA Flag Clubs and Balls version is the same energy with a different layout. Both read as team golf without needing a single word on them.
If you would rather the shirt say something, Here For A Good Time is the honest description of what a Sunday of match play actually is at your house. Back Nine hits differently when the matches are all square walking to the turn. And World's Okayest Golfer is the right amount of self-awareness for watching twenty four of the best players alive do things you will never do.
And if your watch party is the kind where somebody starts quoting the movie by the second match, you already know where to go. Noonan exists precisely to be yelled across a living room at a man lining up a four footer on the screen. Gunga Galunga is for the guy who can recite the whole speech, and Ty Webb is the quiet one for people who do not want the shirt doing the talking. The rest of them live in the Caddyshack collection.
For the group that treats the turn like a meal, Fueled By Turn Dogs is undefeated, and a golf towel like the Wisconsin Stripper is the cheap gift that gets read out loud on every first tee it ever hangs on.
The Real Answer To Your Question
There is no Ryder Cup in 2026. There is a Presidents Cup at Medinah in two weeks, a brand new tournament in the mountains of North Carolina this Thursday, and a little over a year until Ireland.
September golf is not cancelled. It just answers to a different name this year.
Our tees run $29.99 and the whole lineup lives in The Tee Box, with the newest designs in New Arrivals. We have been making shirts for golfers since 2025, and we have found that the people who search for a tournament that does not exist are exactly the people who will be on the couch for all four days of one that does.
Set the recording for the 24th. Wear something with an opinion on it.
See you tomorrow.
Dan
Shanked Right
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