2028 Presidents Cup

The 2028 Presidents Cup will be the 17th time this tournament is played. Played on an every-other-year basis, it was first contested in 1994. Today, it takes place in even-numbered years.

The Presidents Cup is a team, match-play tournament, between two squads: Team USA and Team International. (Team International is comprised of golfers from countries that do not participate in the Ryder Cup.) Through 2026, Team USA had won all but two of the tournaments. The standings are 14 wins for Team USA, one win for Team International, and one tie.

2028 Presidents Cup dates: TBA, but usually played in late September (played over four days, Thursday-Sunday)
Golf course: Kingston Heath Golf Club in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia
Team captains: TBA, the PGA Tour selects both team captains
Defending champ: Team USA won the 2026 Presidents Cup by a 17-13 score
Tickets: Will become available within a few months of the completion of the 2026 Presidents Cup. Visit the Tickets section of presidentscup.com for updates.

Scores of all previous Presidents Cup matches

Players and Team Qualification

Team USA and Team International are formed partly on point standings, partly on selections made by the respective team captains. For the current point standings and qualification criteria, see: Each team is made up of 12 golfers. In 2026, each side was comprised of six automatic qualifiers from the points lists, joined by six captain's picks.

2028 Presidents Cup Golf Course: Kingston Heath

Kingston Heath Golf Club, in Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia (part of the Melbourne metropolis), is the site of the 2028 Presidents Cup. It will be the fourth time the Presidents Cup takes place in Melbourne, Australia.

Kingston Heath, a sandbelt course, has ranked in the Top 3 among Australian golf courses in the biannual rankings done by Australian Golf Digest multiple times in the 2000s. The original Golf Digest (published in the U.S.) has included Kingston Heath in the Top 20 of its World's Top 100 Courses rankings multiple times in the 2000s.

Kingston Heath has been the site of many top tournaments in Australia, including the Australian Open seven times and Australian Masters twice. These are those years and tournament winners:

  • 1948 Australian Open: Ossie Pickworth
  • 1957 Australian Open: Frank Phillips
  • 1970 Australian Open: Gary Player
  • 1983 Australian Open: Peter Fowler
  • 1989 Australian Open: Peter Senior
  • 1995 Australian Open: Greg Norman
  • 2000 Australian Open: Aaron Baddeley
  • 2009 Australian Masters: Tiger Woods
  • 2012 Australian Masters: Adam Scott
Additionally, Kingston Heath has also been the site of the Women's Australian Open once, the Victorian Open seven times, the World Cup of Golf once, and the Australian Match Play Championship seven times.

Schedule and Competition Format

The Presidents Cup is played over four days, from Thursday through Sunday. A total of 30 matches are played over those four days, consisting of nine foursomes matches, nine fourball matches and 12 singles matches.

The competition schedule breaks down like this:

Day 1 (Thursday) — 5 foursomes or fourballs (choice of the home team's captain)
Day 2 (Friday) — 5 foursomes or fourballs (the format that was not played on Day 1)
Day 3 (Saturday) — 4 foursomes and 4 fourballs
Day 4 (Sunday) — 12 singles matches. All golfers on both teams play.

More About the Presidents Cup:

Sources:
Association Press. "Australia's Kingston Heath to host 2028 Presidents Cup," espn.com, June 26, 2023, https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/37919976/australia-kingston-heath-host-2028-presidents-cup.
PGA Tour. "Presidents Cup Future Venues," https://presidentscup.com/future-venues.
PGATour.com. "How it works: Presidents Cup," July 23, 2024, https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/latest/2024/07/23/how-it-works-president-cup-format-teams-scoring-trophy-royal-montreal-jim-furyk-mike-weir.

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