LONDON — The Netherlands will host the Solheim Cup for the primary time after being chosen to stage the largest crew occasion in ladies’s golf in 2026.
Bernardus Golf will host the occasion, organizers mentioned Tuesday. The course in Cromvoirt, a village in southern Netherlands near the historic cathedral metropolis of Den Bosch, opened in 2018 and has already hosted the Dutch Open on the lads’s European tour in 2021 and 2022 and can accomplish that once more subsequent 12 months.
Catriona Matthew, who was Europe’s captain for Solheim Cup victories in 2019 and 2021, described Bernardus as “a tremendous venue.”
“It sort of jogged my memory slightly little bit of a hyperlinks course,” Matthew mentioned. “There’s going to be lots of risk-reward on the previous few holes so it should be thrilling and that is what the followers wish to come and see.”
Europe will defend the trophy towards the US at Finca Cortesin in Spain in September subsequent 12 months.
The Solheim Cup will then revert to being held in even years, with Robert Trent Jones Golf Membership in Virginia internet hosting in 2024.