Tickets for the 2027 Ryder Cup will cost a jarring €500 for a single-day pass – the most-expensive price ever charged for a European edition of the event.
The price is up to five times the cost of the 2006 edition in The K Club, in Kildare, where a single-day ticket cost between €100 and €130. A four-day ticket in 2006 set people back €350, compared to an outrageous €2,000 for an all-week ticket at next year’s competition.
Looking back to the 2023 edition, next year’s prices still seem outlandish at roughly double the price – tickets for Rome cost €260 for a day pass.
However, a ticket to last year’s Ryder Cup in Bethpage cost $750, meaning next year’s ticket process is not the most expensive ever, but the most expensive for a European edition.
The European Tour Group’s chief Ryder Cup officer Richard Atkinson has defended the price increase, saying, ‘We acknowledge it’s an increase from Rome, that was four years ago, and a lot has happened in the world since then. We are lower than Bethpage.’
‘Our prices are proportionate to a global sporting event. This event has grown in stature and profile; it’s one of the biggest sporting events in the world. We’re confident in our pricing, but we’ve made it accessible to everyone’, said Atkinson.
There are also premium experience tickets available for €900 daily. These tickets include an ‘exclusive on-site facility, offering enhanced comfort, seating, entertainment and food and drink vouchers throughout the day’, according to the Ryder Cup official website.
European captain Luke Donald was in Adare last month walking the course and exploring the local village. Donald has the chance to win his third Ryder Cup in a row as captain when he faces Jim Furyk’s USA side next September.
Furyk returns as USA captain after losing in Paris in 2018 during his first captaincy. Furyk, who won two Ryder Cups as a player, will be hoping to put an end to Team USA’s losing streak on European soil, a streak that goes back to 1993.
