Ryder Cup Europe and the PGA of America announced yesterday, 22 July 2026, that Stripe has signed a new agreement to become a Worldwide Partner and the Official Payment Solutions Partner to the Ryder Cup. The partnership covers the next two editions of golf's most celebrated team competition: the 2027 match at Adare Manor in Limerick, Ireland — the event's centenary edition — and the 2029 match at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. Stripe joins Capgemini, DP World, SAP, Rolex and Smurfit WestRock as a worldwide partner of the competition, elevating it to the top tier of the Ryder Cup's commercial partner portfolio.
In practical terms, Stripe's role goes well beyond the badge of a naming-rights sponsor. The company will power the full commercial and payments infrastructure of both events — online ticket sales and hospitality packages running through a single checkout experience, with Stripe Link offering fans a one-click payment option and local payment methods for the competition's global fanbase. On site at both venues, Stripe Terminal will be deployed across food and beverage, merchandise and retail — covering what the European Tour group's CEO Guy Kinnings described as operations that are genuinely significant in scale. At the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage State Park in New York, there was over 70,000 square feet of merchandise space alone. For both Adare Manor in 2027 and Hazeltine in 2029, Stripe's technology will be the infrastructure that makes a cashless fan experience possible across the entire site.
"An event like the Ryder Cup — hundreds of thousands of fans with payments running across ticketing, food and beverage, and merchandise — is exactly the kind of scale Stripe operates at every day," said Conor McNamara, Stripe's Head of Partnerships for EMEA. Kinnings was equally direct about what the partnership means for the event's operational ambitions: "Stripe's technology platforms will help us to deliver a cashless experience in Ireland with increased speed and convenience for our fans around the world."
The Irish Story Behind the Deal
The specific resonance of this partnership — for anyone paying attention to the Irish technology and business story of the past fifteen years — is difficult to overstate. Stripe was founded in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison, two brothers who grew up in Dromineer in County Tipperary and built what is now one of the most significant financial technology companies on the planet from a starting point of wanting to make it easier for developers to accept payments online. The company is dual-headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin — the second Dublin headquarters formally opened in October 2025 — and now processes payments for businesses ranging from early-stage startups to the largest enterprises in the world. In February 2026, a tender offer set Stripe's valuation at $159 billion, up from $91.5 billion a year earlier and from $65 billion in April 2024. The company's total payment volume reached $1.9 trillion in 2025, equivalent to approximately 1.6% of global GDP, up 34% on the previous year. Its net revenue is estimated at $5.1 billion for 2024, with the revenue suite on track to hit an annual run rate of $1 billion in 2026. Ninety percent of the Dow Jones and 80% of the Nasdaq 100 now run on Stripe.
Patrick and John Collison together hold an estimated 20-25% combined economic stake and majority voting control through super-voting shares, giving them a collective net worth of approximately $20 billion as of early 2026. Stripe has not filed for an IPO and has repeatedly indicated it has no immediate plans to do so — instead conducting a series of tender offers since 2024 to provide employee and shareholder liquidity, each one at a higher valuation than the last.
And now this Irish company, founded by two brothers from Tipperary sixteen years ago, will power the payment infrastructure of the Ryder Cup — first at Adare Manor in County Limerick in 2027, and then at Hazeltine in 2029, carrying an Irish-built technology platform into one of the most commercially complex sporting events in the global calendar.
The 2027 Ryder Cup: What Adare Manor and the Centenary Edition Means
The 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor will be the competition's 47th edition and its centenary year — marking 100 years since the inaugural match was played in 1927 at Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts. It will be Ireland's second hosting of the Ryder Cup after the K Club in County Kildare held the competition in 2006, where Europe defeated the United States 18.5 to 9.5 in what was at the time one of the most comprehensive European victories in the competition's history. Europe won the most recent edition, defeating the United States 15-13 at Bethpage State Park in New York in 2025, with Rory McIlroy's performance central to the victory.
Adare Manor is a five-star hotel and golf resort set within a 840-acre estate in the village of Adare, County Limerick, approximately 16 kilometres south of Limerick City. The Manor House itself is a Victorian Gothic building constructed between 1832 and 1862, and its golf course — redesigned by Tom Fazio and reopened in 2018 — has consistently ranked among the finest in Ireland and Europe since its reopening. The ballot for tickets to the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor has already closed, reflecting the scale of demand that a home Ryder Cup in Ireland generates. The economic impact of the 2006 K Club edition was estimated at over €140 million for the Irish economy, and the 2027 edition at a resort of Adare Manor's calibre, with Ireland's tourism infrastructure significantly more developed than it was two decades ago, is expected to generate an even more significant economic contribution to the Munster region and to Ireland as a whole.
Why This Partnership Makes Commercial Sense for Both Parties
From Stripe's perspective, the Ryder Cup partnership is not primarily a marketing exercise — it is a live demonstration of the company's technology at a scale and visibility that few events on the global sporting calendar can match. The Ryder Cup attracts a television audience of hundreds of millions across its five days of competition, with live coverage across the United States, Europe and beyond. The partnership gives Stripe prominent brand presence at an event watched by exactly the corporate decision-makers — CFOs, procurement directors, technology buyers — who make enterprise payments infrastructure decisions. For a company that processes $1.9 trillion in annual payment volume and is positioned for potential IPO activity in the coming years, being seen to power the payment experience at the Ryder Cup in Ireland in 2027 and Minnesota in 2029 is a coherent and commercially deliberate brand positioning exercise.
From the Ryder Cup's perspective, the partnership with Stripe brings genuine operational benefit rather than simply a cheque and a logo. The complexity of managing payments across a site the size of the Ryder Cup — hundreds of thousands of fans across multiple days, dozens of food and beverage units, a merchandise operation spanning 70,000 or more square feet, and an online ticketing and hospitality sales operation serving a global customer base — requires payment infrastructure that is both technically robust and commercially sophisticated. Stripe's existing relationship with the Ryder Cup as an online payments partner gives both parties a working foundation to build on; this new agreement extends that relationship into the full on-site operational picture for the first time.
What It Signals About Ireland's Technology Position
The Stripe-Ryder Cup deal, announced yesterday, is a small but telling indicator of where Ireland's technology sector sits in 2026. The country's two most commercially significant fintech companies — Stripe and TransferMate, the latter valued at over $1 billion — are both Irish-founded and globally relevant. Stripe's Dublin headquarters, opened formally in October 2025, signals a continued and deepening commitment to Ireland as a base for European operations even as the company's global scale expands. And the fact that an Irish-founded, Irish-headquartered payments company is now the Official Payment Solutions Partner for the Ryder Cup in Ireland in 2027 — an event that will draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to Limerick and billions of viewers globally — is the kind of alignment between Irish enterprise ambition and Irish cultural moment that doesn't happen by accident.
Patrick Collison, who studied physics at MIT before dropping out to build Stripe, once described the company's ambition as "increasing the GDP of the internet." That ambition is on full display in a partnership that will see Stripe's infrastructure quietly underpinning every transaction — from a ticket bought in advance by a fan in Tokyo to a pint of Guinness bought at a merchandise stand in Adare — at the centenary Ryder Cup on Irish soil.
The Bottom Line
Stripe becoming the Official Payment Solutions Partner of the Ryder Cup for 2027 and 2029 is a genuinely significant commercial announcement — not just for the Collison brothers' company, now valued at $159 billion, but for the story of Irish technology enterprise more broadly. Two brothers from Tipperary will power the payment infrastructure of golf's greatest team event when it comes home to Ireland at Adare Manor next year. That is a sentence worth pausing on.