The 2025 Ryder Cup is going to be one of the most unforgettable scenes perhaps in professional golf history.
Team USA will look to reclaim the Ryder Cup from Team Europe in late September when the Americans host the 2025 Ryder Cup from Sept. 26-28 at Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, N.Y.
Bethpage Black Gets Its Chance to Host 2025 Ryder Cup
Bethpage Black is a public course, unsurprisingly considered one of the best public courses in the world. The Long Island golf staple ranked No. 7 on Golf Digest’s 2025 rankings of top public courses in America, trailing only Pinehurst No. 2, Kiawah Island, Whistling Straits, Shadow Creek, Pacific Dunes and Pebble Beach — not bad company.
This is not the first time the golf world has descended on the New York state park, either. Bethpage Black has hosted two U.S. Opens (2002 and 2009) as well as the 2019 PGA Championship.
“Heady stuff for a layout that was once a scruffy state-park haunt where one needed to sleep in the parking lot in order to get a tee time,” GolfDigest.com wrote in its capsule for its public course rankings. “Now, you need fast fingers on the state park’s website once tee times are available — as prime reservations at The Black are known for going in seconds.”
Extremely Difficult Bethpage Black to Test World’s Best Again
The course’s main claim to fame, though, is that is one of the most difficult golf courses the world has to offer. Brooks Koepka won the 2019 PGA at just 8-under, just surviving after shooting 4-over in the final round. The 2002 U.S. Open was even more of a bloodbath, with champion Tiger Woods (3-under) getting through the week as the only player to finish below par, a weekend in which the cut was 10-over. The 2009 U.S. Open was slightly more forgiving, at least until Sunday. Lucas Glover held on to win at 4-under (one of just five players below par), and just eight players (including Woods and Rory McIlroy) broke par in the final round of the tournament.
The course’s “Warning” sign — “The Black Course is an extremely difficult course which we recommend only for highly skilled golfers” — has become the thing of legend (and apparel) over the years.
“The thing that makes Bethpage so mercilessly hard is that you can’t really do one thing to cover for other areas,” Luke Kerr-Dineen wrote for Golf.com. “The course’s difficulty is layered in multiple ways. It’s long, for instance, but the walk is also difficult because it’s so undulating, which makes the greens tricky because there aren’t many flat spots, which means it quickly becomes more about course management. But the rough is also really long and you can’t really manage your way around it, and did we mention it’s long?”
One other storyline tangentially related to the course will be how the crowd behaves — or whether it behaves. Ryder Cup crowds have become increasingly fanatical, and there’s some who believe bringing the tournament to New York with the passionate sports fans of the Tri-State Area could make it even more unruly.
Team USA captain Keegan Bradley in 2024 warned fans ahead of time that there would be no shortage of security on the property and urged the American supporters to keep it as positive as possible. And while that might be the case for most, don’t be surprised if the Ryder Cup crowd is a major talking point during the three-day bonanza on Long Island.
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