In the verdant Irish countryside, set among the sprawling grounds of a 19th century gothic masterpiece, you’ll find a golf course shaped by two of the game’s greatest architects, that’s maintained like no other on the continent, and is preparing to host golf’s greatest show. This is Adare Manor, home of the 2027 Ryder Cup.

The history of Adare Manor stretches back to the 1170s, when a landholding was first approved by the Norman king to Geoffrey de Marisco. In the 1720s, a Georgian house was built, but it’s the Tudor-Gothic manor, complete with 365 windows and 52 chimneys, built by the 2nd Earl of Dunraven in 1832, that houses the luxury hotel we see today, bought and renovated by Irish businessman JP McManus in 2015.

The golf course was originally built in 1995 by Robert Trent Jones Sr, featuring many classic traits of a Trent Jones course, including cloverleaf bunkers, American-style mounding and water hazards aplenty. By the mid-2000s, its renown saw Adare chosen as a championship host, home to the 2003 Irish PGA Championship, won by Paul McGinley, and the Irish Open in 2007 and 2008, won by Pádraig Harrington and Richard Finch respectively. This put the course firmly on the Irish golfing map, regarded among the top ten on the island of Ireland.

Having fallen in stature in the decade or so following, when McManus bought Adare Manor in 2015, he turned it into a coveted championship course. Architect Tom Fazio, the man who has been charged with priming and polishing the fairways and greens of Augusta National since 1998, was drafted in to give the course its revamp, so it was inevitable that the course he created was going to be spectacular. As he said at the time: "It is as beautiful and challenging as every golf course anywhere else in Ireland. It will be an outstanding course in Europe, and with its Adare Manor house and estate as its backdrop, is one of the most beautiful places to stay and play ever built. Everyone will desire to visit this venue."

While the routing remained in place, Fazio rebuilt every tee, bunker, green and water feature, with the course now one of the finest manicured tracks in the world. Overgrown sections were drawn back to unveil sweeping views of the estate, 220,000 tonnes of sand were shipped in to ensure the fairways stay dry, and Sub Air technology was installed beneath each putting surface, providing constant air movement for ultimate aeration. What resulted is a pristine parkland experience that is hard to compare to anything but Augusta.

The closing stretch contains the course’s signature holes. From the 15th onwards, the River Maigue becomes a constant presence, hugging greens, catching any slightly over-bold approach, and turning even the simplest shots into moments of theatre. The par-5 18th in particular is destined for Ryder Cup drama, the water cutting aggressively up the right, a green angled just so, and the manor itself rising behind. It’s the kind of finishing stretch that seems designed for noise, tension and Sunday-afternoon pressure.

Some of the world’s best have already played here. The JP McManus Pro-Am in 2022 brought a strong field to Adare Manor to try out the fairways, the likes of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele competing. Olympic gold-medal-winner Schauffele went on to win by a stroke over Sam Burns.

In 2019, Adare Manor was named as the host of the 2026 Ryder Cup – with the global pandemic pushing the event back a year, the course will now host in 2027. It will be just the second time ever and the first time in over 20 years that golf’s most famous tournament will be played on Irish shores, the last in 2006 when the K Club, County Kildare, played host to a European victory by 18½ to 9½ points. At a venue that was purpose-built with the Ryder Cup in mind, it’s undoubtedly going to be a spectacle.

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