Sneak Preview, Early Photos Emerge Of The Likely 2041 Ryder Cup Venue

I get that they’re excited down in greater Frisco about the forthcoming PGA of America golf complex, but I’m not sure we needed an early look at the 2041 Ryder Cup possibilities given that we’d like to just get 2020’s Ryder Cup under our belt in…2021.

Anyway, Gil Hanse’s design at the PGA complex in Frisco is starting to look like a golf course, and while I wouldn’t let anyone see it looking like this, Art Stricklin gives a Golf.com update on a course slated to host 20 professional and amateur events over the next two decades.

Never before has a U.S. course had more than 20 professional and amateur golf events — including two PGA Championships (the first in 2027) and two Senior PGA Championships (the first in 2023) — destined for its fairways while it’s still under construction. All course work will be done later this fall, giving the site a year and a half to grow in and mature.

The property also will feature a second course, the West Course, designed by Beau Welling; a practice area and a 10-hole short course; an Omni resort; and PGA headquarters buildings.

One event presumed to be headed to PGA Frisco but which has not yet been officially announced is the most anticipated: a future Ryder Cup. It would represent the first-ever Ryder Cup in North Texas and only the second in the Lone Star State. The next available date is 2041, but that hasn’t stopped the planning or dreaming.

Yes 2041, when Rory McIlroy will be too old and out of touch to Captain a second time and Larry Nelson will still be wondering why he was passed over.

Again, let’s just get 2020’s under our belt and talk later but in the meantime, at least see how the Hanse team is turning a cow pasture into something.