2028 Curtis Cup Dates, Course, Format
The 2028 Curtis Cup Match will be the 45th time this tournament is played. The Curtis Cup is a team, match-play tournament contested by two squads of amateur women golfers, one representing the United States (USA), one representing Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I).
The Curtis Cup was first played in 1932. Today it is played every two years, in even-numbered years. The competition alternates between locations in the United States and United Kingdom, and is jointly run by the USGA and R&A. The all-time standings (through the 2024 Curtis Cup) are 31 wins for Team USA, nine victories for GB&I, with three ties.
Dates: TBA, 2028 (Curtis Cups are typically played in June or August; they are played over three days, Friday-Sunday)
Location: Royal Dornoch Golf Club (Championship Course) in Dornoch, Scotland
Team captains: TBA
How Captains and Teams are Selected
The USGA chooses the Team USA captain and players; the R&A chooses the Team GB&I captain and players. The team captains are typically (but not always) lifelong amateurs who won amateur championships staged by their respective associations, and who played in the Curtis Cup themselves.See the list of all Curtis Cup captains for previous selections.
Each team has eight players. For Team GB&I, two of those can be automatic selections: The reigning British Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Amateur champs, if eligible. Then, up to five highest-ranked GB&I golfers in the World Amateur Golf Ranking as of a predetermined cutoff date make the team. The one to three remaining players are selected by the R&A Women's Selection Committee. For Team USA, the Top 3 American golfers, as of the predetermined cutoff date, in the WAGR are automatic selections; five more golfers are selected by the USGA's International Team Selection Committee.
See the scores of all previous Curtis Cup matches — you can click on a year to view the team rosters for all Curtis Cups.
2028 Curtis Cup Golf Course: Royal Dornoch in Scotland
The Championship Course at Royal Dornoch Golf Club is routinely ranked highly on lists of the world's best golf courses. The club dates to the 1880s, with Old Tom Morris credited as the designer of the original holes. Donald Ross worked as greenskeeper at Dornoch in the 1890s, and George Duncan did some restoration and additions in the mid/late 1940s.Royal Dornoch has never hosted one of the U.K.'s biggest professional tournaments. But it has been the site of these big amateur events:
- 1985 British Amateur: Garth McGimpsey
- 1993 Scottish Amateur: Dean Robertson
- 2000 Scottish Amateur: Steven O'Hara
- 2012 Scottish Amateur: Grant Forrest
- 2022 British Men's Senior Amateur: Mike McCoy
- 2022 British Women's Senior Amateur: Terrill Samuel
- 2023 Scottish Amateur: Cameron Adam
2028 Curtis Cup Format
Four-ball, foursomes (alternate shot) and singles matches are played over the span of three days, a total of 20 matches — six doubles matches (three four-ball, three foursomes) each of the first two days, eight singles matches the final day.A team that wins a match receives one point; if the match is halved, both sides get a half-point. The defending Curtis Cup champion needs 10 points to hold the cup; the challenging side needs 10.5 points to take the cup.
More Curtis Cup reading:
- Who is the Curtis Cup named after?
- Curtis Cup families: Sisters, mothers/daughters who've played
- Golfers who won the most points in Curtis Cup play
R&A and USGA. Curtis Cup Match Media Guide.
USGA. Curtis Cup, Future Sites, Royal Dornoch, https://championships.usga.org/curtiscup/future-sites-curtis-cup.html.
