The 42nd Ryder Cup will be held in France from September 28–30, 2018 at the Albatros Course of Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, a suburb southwest of Paris. It will be the second Ryder Cup to be held in Continental Europe, after the 1997 contest, which was held in Spain. The United States are the defending champions, but have lost the last five matches in Europe, having last won there in 1993.