Lahinch honoured to host 2020 Palmer Cup

Lahinch Golf Club will not be taking the honour of hosting the 2020 Arnold Palmer Cup lightly.

The famous links on Ireland’s Atlantic coast was last week awarded the right to stage collegiate team matchplay competition based on the Ryder Cup, and which from next year will transform from a US versus Europe event for men into a USA v Rest of the World contest between mixed teams.

Lahinch will follow Doonbeg and Royal County Down as Irish hosts of the Palmer Cup, co-founded by and named after the late Arnold Palmer in 1997, initially as a contest between the US and GB & Ireland.