Whistling Straits, the Pete Dye-designed course, which hosted the 86th PGA Championship last season, is the longest (7,536 yards) layout in Major Championship history, reports europeantour.com.
The same venue has also been selected to stage the 2010 and 2015 US PGA Championships.
The announcement of Whistling Straits as a Ryder Cup venue means that the locations for seven of the next eight Ryder Cup matches have been confirmed, with The K Club in Ireland hosting next year’s event. Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky will play host to the 2008 Matches before Europe take on America in Wales for the first time in the Cup’s history at the Celtic Manor Resort in 2010.
Two years later, it will be back across the Atlantic to Medinah Country Club in Illinois, before The Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland gets the chance to play host in 2014. Hazeltine National Country Club is the venue for The 2016 Ryder Cup, with the 2018 venue to be confirmed.
