The United States team of 10 PGA of America club professionals from throughout the country will descend on the Sunriver Meadows Golf Course for the 31st edition of the PGA Cup, set for Friday through Sunday.

The biennial competition against a team from Great Britain and Ireland follows the same three-day, match-play format as the Ryder Cup. The PGA Cup will begin with four-ball and foursomes on Friday and Saturday, followed by singles matches on Sunday.

PGA of America honorary president Jim Richerson will captain the American team, according to a PGA of America news release. Richerson, the PGA General Manager of Riviera Country Club and Riviera Tennis Club in Pacific Palisades, California, previously captained the U.S. to a two-stroke victory at the 2022 Women’s PGA Cup.

“I feel very honored and excited,” Richerson was quoted in the release. “We’ve got a mixture of veterans and rookies. We’re looking forward to those veterans being able to lead the team, and we’re excited about those who made it for the first time. We feel we have a really strong team, but we know Great Britain and Ireland has one as well. The competitions have been very tight over the past four or five Cups and we expect exactly the same when we get to Sunriver.”

The U.S. Team consists of four PGA Members with PGA Cup experience, including Michael Block (Mission Viejo, Calif.); Jared Jones (Houston, Texas); Jesse Mueller (Phoenix, Ariz.) and Ben Polland (Jackson Hole, Wyo.).

Polland, the 2024 PGA Professional Champion and recent winner of the 2024 Rocky Mountain PGA Professional Championship, will be appearing in his third PGA Cup (2015, 2022).

“It’s my favorite week,” Polland said. “My two favorite weeks of my career have been CordeValle and London. The PGA does an amazing job making us feel special and putting on this competition.”

As one of the U.S. players with PGA Cup experience, Polland is happy to be a sounding board for his teammates playing in the event for the first time.

“For everyone that it’s a new experience, you don’t realize the nerves that you’re going to feel on the first tee,” Polland was quoted in the release. “They are some of the most nerves I’ve felt playing golf. It’s a big deal and it feels really big with the hype leading up to it.”

The U.S. owns a 19-7-4 record in the PGA Cup, and is coming off a resounding 15.5-10.5 victory in 2022 at Foxhills Resort & Club in Surrey, England, earning its first overseas victory since 2009.

“There are very few opportunities that a player gets to compete and represent their country and for us to represent the Association as PGA Members,” Richerson said. “It’s very special in that regard and something our players take very seriously. They’re all very honored to represent the PGA of America as well as the USA.”

The U.S. Team was determined through a two-year point system, which included the 2023-24 PGA Professional Championships and 2023-24 PGA Championships. The points race concluded with the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky.

Sunriver’s Meadows and Crosswater Club hosted the PGA Professional Championship — featuring top club professionals from across the country — four times, in 2001, 2007, 2013 and 2017.

Tee times for the PGA Cup at Sunriver Meadows start at 7:30 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday.

Sunriver was placed under Level 2-Be Set evacuation notice late Tuesday as several active fires continue to burn in the Deschutes National Forest near Sunriver, Mount Bachelor and east of La Pine. Asked about the possibility of postponing or canceling the PGA Cup, Greg Dillard, the director of championships public relations for PGA of America, said Tuesday that no decision was imminent.

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