2026 Curtis Cup: Dates, Golf Course

The 2026 Curtis Cup Match will be the 44th time this tournament is played. The Curtis Cup is a team, match-play tournament contested by two squads of amateur women golfers, one representing the United States (USA), one representing Great Britain & Ireland (GB&I).

The Curtis Cup was first played in 1932. Today it is played every two years, in even-numbered years. The competition alternates between U.S. and U.K. locations, and is jointly run by the R&A and USGA. The all-time standings are 31 wins for Team USA, nine victories for GB&I, with three ties.

Dates: June 12-14 (Friday-Sunday), 2026
Location: Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, California
Defending champion: Great Britain & Ireland won the 2024 Curtis Cup, 10½ to 9½.
Tickets: Information on tickets was not yet available at the time of this writing. For updates check the USGA's Championship Schedule page (click to year 2026). That page will be updated when tickets are available.

How Captains and Teams are Selected

The USGA chooses the Team USA captain and players; the R&A chooses the Team GB&I captain and players. The team captains are typically lifelong amateurs who won amateur championships staged by their respective associations, and who played in the Curtis Cup themselves.

See the list of all Curtis Cup captains for previous selections.

Each team has eight players. For Team GB&I, two of those are automatic selections: The two highest-ranked GB&I golfers in the World Amateur Golf Ranking as of a predetermined cutoff date make the team. The remaining six players are selected by the R&A Women's Selection Committee. For Team USA, the Top 3 American golfers, as of the predetermined cutoff date, in the WAGR are automatic selections; five more golfers are selected by the USGA's International Team Selection Committee.

See the scores of all previous Curtis Cup matches — you can click on a year to view the team rosters for all Curtis Cups.

Related: Curtis Cup families: Sisters, mothers/daughters who've played

2026 Curtis Cup Golf Course: Bel-Air CC

In one of the ritziest neighborhoods that is in one of the swankiest sections of Los Angeles, Bel-Air Country Club is the site of the 2026 Curtis Cup. Expect the Curtis Cup team members to take excursions into adjacent Beverly Hills.

Depending on which golfers are named to the respective teams, some of them might already be familiar with the Bel-Air golf course: The country club is where the UCLA college golf teams (women's and men's) practice.

Bel-Air CC was originally designed by George Thomas (who also designed Riviera Country Club), and renovated in the 2010s by Tom Doak. It was the site of the 1976 U.S. Amateur and the 2004 U.S. Senior Amateur.

After the renovation, the USGA announced in 2021 that Bel-Air had been awarded the 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur, 2026 Curtis Cup and 2030 U.S. Mid-Amateur tournaments. The winner of that 2023 U.S. Women's Amateur was Megan Schofill, who played for Team USA in the 2024 Curtis Cup.

2026 Curtis Cup Format

Four-ball, foursomes (alternate shot) and singles matches are played over the span of three days, a total of 20 matches — six doubles matches (three four-ball, three foursomes) each of the first two days, eight singles matches the final day.

A team that wins a match receives one point; if the match is halved, both sides get a half-point. The defending Curtis Cup champion needs 10 points to hold the cup; the challenging side needs 10.5 points to take the cup.

Sources:
R&A and USGA. Curtis Cup Match Media Guide.
USGA. "Bel-Air Chosen to Host Three USGA Championships, May 19, 2021, https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/articles/2021/05/bel-air-three-future-usga-championships-los-angeles.html.
USGA. "USGA Championship Schedule," 2026, https://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/golf-schedule-scores-tickets.html.