Billy Hoschel has never played nor attended a Ryder Cup.
However, it has not stopped the affable American from predicting the hosting next year of the 45th Ryder Cup on the Bethpage Park Black course to be one of the greatest in the history of the biennial men’s professional golf competiton.
The Bethpage Park Black course, located at Farmingdale on New York’s Long Island, contested the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open along with 2012 and 2016 Barclays Championship on the PGA Tour, as well as the 2019 PGA Championship.
Billy Horschel – Image GolfByTourMiss.com
In a year’s time it will host a first Ryder Cup.
Already, the 45th Ryder Cup is a sell-out and with the venue, within a short driving distance from downtown Manhatten, promising to provide one of the noisest host venues ever to host what is now the third biggest sporting event on the globe.
It’s one reason why Horschel is predicting unprecendented sights and sounds to unfold on the host Bethpage Park Black layout.
“The legendary Bethpage Park Black course promises to be one of the greatest Ryder Cup venues we’ve ever had”, said Horschel speaking ahead of this week’s Dunhill Links Championship.
“Though I also hope that the storyline after those three days at Bethpage Park will be about in how the crowds overwhelmingly reacted in a positive manner rather than focussing on just a small number of fans who didn’t.
“That aside, I feel that the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Park will be one of the greatest Ryder Cup’s that has ever been”.
Horschel has contested just one team event as a professional and that was being a member of the victorious Davis Love 111 led USA Presidents Cup side but there’s no denying how much he would love to make his debut in a USA Ryder Cup side.
Bethpage Park Black course ‘ warning’ – Image GolfByTourMiss.com
“I’ve yet to be at a Ryder Cup so I can only dream what it would be like to be competing in a USA team on home soil and with some 35,000 to 40,000 cheering you on”, he said.
“I’d love so much being there and, if so, knowing I would as nervous as hell, as I know it will be, in taking my place on the opening tee at a Ryder Cup in a USA team”.
ABOUT BETHPAGE PARK …..
BETHPAGE PARK was developed from an estate owned by the Yoakum family and other surrounding properties in Farmingdale.The Yoakum family leased their estate to the Lenox Hills Corporation which subsequently built the Lenox Hills Country Club.
In the early 1930s, the Bethpage Park Authority purchased the Lenox Hills Country Club and other adjacent properties to build Bethpage State Park.
It was famed golf course architect A.W. Tillinghast was hired to design and oversee construction of three new golf courses (the Black, Red, and Blue) as well as modify the original Lenox Hills course, later known as the Green Course.
With approximately 15,000 golf courses of all different types and sizes in the United States, the Black Course at Bethpage State Park has consistently ranked among the top 100 Greatest Golf Courses in America per Golf Digest for nearly twenty years (highest rank #26).
Last year Bethpage Black was ranked the #8 Public Course in America.
