The club was founded in 1892, with the original layout being designed by Alexander W. Shaw and Richard J. Plummer who were members of the Limerick Golf Club. Old Tom Morris and Alister MacKenzie did renovations to what is the current course, which opened for play in 1927. It is the home of the South of Ireland Championship, which dates to 1895. More recently, the 2024 Palmer Cup was staged at Lahinch. The course features the famous Dell Hole, a par-3 that requires a blind tee shot over a dune. A rock is placed at the top of the dune to show where the hole is located. U.S. Open champion Jon Rahm won the Irish Open at Lahinch in 2019. The USGA and R&A agreed to conduct the Walker Cup in even-numbered years to avoid conflicts with the World Amateur Team Championships, which were moved to odd years to avoid conflicting with the Summer Olympics.

Bandon Dunes will add the Walker Cup to its USGA championship pedigree. The first USGA event held at the resort in southwestern Oregon was the 2006 Curtis Cup Match, followed by the 2007 U.S. Mid-Amateur. It is not known which of the five championship courses will conduct the event. The Curtis Cup was staged on Pacific Dunes, while the Bandon Dunes course hosted the match-play portion of the 2007 U.S. Mid-Amateur, 2020 U.S. Amateur, 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur and 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur. Old Macdonald hosted the championship matches of the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links and U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championships, and the 2019 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball. Pacific Dunes was the site of the inaugural U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball.

Prince's Golf Club will host the Walker Cup Match for the first time in 2030. The English links venue staged The Open Championship in 1932 won by Gene Sarazen, one of six player sto have claimed the career Grand Slam. It also hosted Final Qualifying for that championship from 2018-2022. Most recently, it hosted The Women's Amateur Championship in 2023, won by Chiara Horder of Germany. Since 2017, the 27-hole venue and clubhouse has undergone extensive renovations.

This classic western Pennsylvania gem, which has hosted more U.S. Opens than any other layout (10), will finally get an opportunity to be a host site for the Walker Cup Match. The only design by Henry Fownes opened for play in 1903 and quickly established itself as one of the leading championship layouts in the U.S. Bob Jones won the 1925 U.S. Amateur here, while names such as Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller, Larry Nelson and Dustin Johnson have won the U.S. Open at Oakmont. 

As one of the five founding clubs of the USGA, Chicago Golf Club is steeped in history. It is a classic Charles Blair Macdonald design that was later reworked by his protege, Seth Raynor. Chicago Golf Club hosted a thrilling Walker Cup Match in 2005, where the Americans had to hold off a hard-charging Great Britain & Ireland side in Sunday singles with Jeff Overton's two-putt par on the 18th hole finally securing the necessary points to reclaim the cup for the first time since 1997. It also hosted the 1928 Walker Cup, also won by the USA. Chicago Golf Club features all the great template holes of a Macdonald/Raynor design. Chicago Golf Club also hosted the inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open in 2018, won by Laura Davies. The club was the site of three early U.S. Opens, the last in 1911 won by John McDermott.

Iconic Pine Valley Golf Club, generally considered one of the finest layouts in the world, will host the Walker Cup Match for a second time in 1944. It previously hosted the 1985 Match, won by the USA, 13-11. That team featured future major champion Davis Love III as well future PGA Tour winners Duffy Waldorf, Scott Verplank and Sam Randolph, along with decorated amateur Jay Sigel, a five-time USGA champion. Pine Valley, the brainchild of George Crump and opened in 1913, will host the Curtis Cup Match in 1934. Crump died before his masterpiece was completed in the south New Jersey pinelands. The property covers 184 acres. A.W. Tillinghast, Harry Colt, Charles Allison and Perry Maxwell all contributed to the original routing. Pine Valley also is the site of the annual Crump Cup, a late-summer/early-fall event that brings together top male mid-amateurs and senior amateurs.