The Next Two Presidents Cups: Where the 2028 and 2030 Events Will Be Held

The next two Presidents Cups will be played at courses that have never hosted the event: Kingston Heath in Melbourne, Australia, in 2028 and Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2030.

The first two editions, in 1994 and 1996, were held at the same course, Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia. The Ryder Cup-style team competition pits the United States against an International team excluding Great Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. The venue was chosen largely because of its proximity to the U.S. capital, with Gerald Ford serving as honorary chairman.

The PGA Tour, which created the Presidents Cup, initially had no plans to take the event overseas. After the competition built momentum and attracted fans and sponsors, it settled into its current two-year rotation between the United States and international venues. The 2001 event was postponed after the September 11 attacks, and the 2020 edition was delayed by the pandemic. In 1998, the Presidents Cup first moved to Australia, with Royal Melbourne Golf Club as the venue.

The event has since returned to several courses: Robert Trent Jones Golf Club hosted in 2000 and 2005, Royal Melbourne in 2011 and 2019, and Royal Montreal Golf Club in 2007 and 2024. This year’s edition concludes today at Medinah No. 3 in the Chicago suburbs. Sunday singles will determine whether the United States extends its dominance or the International team records only its second victory in 16 attempts.

Like the team rosters, the Presidents Cup’s geography is becoming more diverse. The International team had no players from Canada or Korea in the first two editions; this year’s roster includes four. The next two events will broaden the venue list further.

Kingston Heath, Melbourne, Australia — 2028

The 2028 Presidents Cup will return to Australia’s Sandbelt, but not to Royal Melbourne. Nearby Kingston Heath will host the event for the first time. It will be the fourth Presidents Cup held in Melbourne, tying the city with Gainesville for the most editions hosted by a single city.

Kingston Heath has been a fixture of Australian golf for a century. It has hosted seven Australian Opens and several Australian Masters, most recently in 2012, when Adam Scott — a potential International captain in 2028 — won on his home Sandbelt.

Among golf-course architecture specialists, however, Kingston Heath’s reputation rests less on its tournament record than on its land. Dan Soutar laid out the course in the 1920s, and in 1926 Alister MacKenzie, fresh from his work at Royal Melbourne, refined the bunkering. Construction was led by legendary greenkeeper Mick Morcom. Together, they transformed a modest, largely flat stretch of sandy ground into one of golf’s most studied routings and one of its most compelling tests.

Bellerive, St. Louis, Missouri — 2030

Two years later, the Presidents Cup returns to St. Louis and Bellerive Country Club, a course with a strong major-championship pedigree. It hosted the 1965 U.S. Open, where Gary Player completed the career Grand Slam on the youngest course ever to stage the championship; the 1992 PGA Championship, where Nick Price won his first major; the inaugural U.S. Mid-Amateur in 1981; and, most recently, the 2018 PGA Championship, won by Brooks Koepka.

The club dates to 1897, but the course that will host the Presidents Cup dates to 1960. That year, Robert Trent Jones Sr. was brought in to design an entirely new 18-hole course on land west of the city. The muscular, bunker-heavy layout was nicknamed the “Green Monster of Ladue.”

In 2005–06, his son Rees Jones carried out a $9.5 million renovation, rebuilding bunkers, tightening fairways and adding water to the second hole. The result is a powerful championship course and the fifth different U.S. venue to host the Presidents Cup.