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    Polo in United States

    The United States hosts a vibrant polo scene from historic East Coast clubs to the acclaimed Florida winter circuit in Wellington. The USPA governs over 300 clubs with more than 3,500 registered players, making America one of the world's largest polo nations.

    Polo in United States

    The United States has one of the largest polo memberships in the world, with strong scenes in Florida (especially Wellington), California (Santa Barbara, the Bay Area), Texas, the Northeast, and the Midwest. The USPA-sanctioned high-goal season peaks in winter in Florida and in summer in Aiken, Greenwich, and the Pacific Northwest. The US Open Polo Championship at the National Polo Center in Wellington is the marquee event.

    Season
    Year-round (Florida winter, Northeast/California summer)
    Average cost
    US$150–$400 per lesson; US$200–$500 per chukka
    Governing body
    United States Polo Association (USPA)

    Season

    Florida winter (Jan-Apr), summer in Hamptons/California/Colorado

    Lesson Cost

    $150–$350

    Association

    United States Polo Association (USPA)

    Clubs Listed

    18 clubs

    Top Polo Cities in United States

    Aiken

    0 clubs

    Bridgehampton

    0 clubs

    Carpinteria

    0 clubs

    Erwinna

    0 clubs

    Greenwich

    0 clubs

    Indio

    0 clubs

    Miami

    0 clubs

    Oak Brook

    0 clubs

    Okeechobee

    0 clubs

    Old Westbury

    0 clubs

    Palm Beach

    Palm Beach and Wellington form the winter polo capital of the Americas. From January through April, the world's top players converge for high-goal tournaments at International Polo Club and Grand Champions.

    6 clubs

    Patterson

    0 clubs

    Portsmouth

    Rhode Island polo destination celebrating 150th anniversary

    0 clubs

    Puntacana

    Dominican Republic Caribbean polo destination

    0 clubs

    Santa Barbara

    Pacific Coast polo at its finest since 1911.

    3 clubs

    Sedalia

    0 clubs

    Waimanalo

    0 clubs

    Wellington

    0 clubs

    Wellington

    Winter polo capital of the Western Hemisphere.

    8 clubs

    Club Locations in United States

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    Polo Clubs in United States

    18 clubs

    Aiken Polo Club

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    The Aiken Polo Club is one of America's most storied and beloved polo institutions, set in the South Carolina town of Aiken — long celebrated as the "Polo Capital of the South." Founded in the early 20th century, Aiken became a legendary winter training ground for Northeastern elite polo families escaping harsh winters, with the Whitney, Hitchcock, and Vanderbilt families all playing prominent roles in its history. The club operates two primary seasons — spring (March–May) and fall (September–November) — offering an exceptional climate for polo in both windows. Its beautifully maintained grass fields, welcoming membership culture, and proximity to the famed Aiken equestrian community make it a magnet for players seeking high-quality winter polo. The town itself is a living museum of American polo heritage, with horse trails, equestrian estates, and a vibrant polo-watching culture that draws spectators every Sunday.

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    Year-round

    Bridgehampton Polo Club

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    Bridgehampton Polo Club is the quintessential Hamptons summer polo experience, staged on the manicured lawns of the iconic Two Trees Farm in Bridgehampton, Long Island. Founded by Peter Brant, one of the most influential figures in American polo, the club has hosted elite 20-goal polo every Sunday afternoon throughout July and August for decades — drawing A-list celebrities, Wall Street titans, fashion industry luminaries, and serious polo aficionados in equal measure. Players of the calibre of Adolfo Cambiaso and Nacho Figueras have graced these fields, elevating the social status of Hamptons polo to a true international event. Entry to Sunday fixtures is open to the public and has become one of the most fashionable summer afternoons on the entire East Coast social calendar, with champagne, picnics, and the divot stomp at half-time as beloved traditions.

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    Year-round

    Denver Polo Club

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    Denver Polo Club is Colorado's premier polo institution, situated amid the spectacular scenery of the Rocky Mountain Front Range with a playing elevation that makes it one of the highest-altitude polo venues in North America. The club has been central to Colorado's thriving polo community for decades, hosting competitive tournaments throughout the summer season from May through September. The thinner air at altitude gives the game a distinctive pace and provides a unique physical challenge even for seasoned players. Denver Polo Club features multiple well-maintained grass fields, excellent stabling, and a welcoming membership that spans everything from beginner players to seasoned handicap-rated professionals. The club actively supports youth polo, pony club integration, and educational outreach, cementing its role as a cornerstone of equestrian sport in the Rocky Mountain West. Spectacular mountain views and a vibrant Colorado lifestyle make Denver Polo an unforgettable experience.

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    Year-round

    Empire Polo Club

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    Empire Polo Club in Indio, California's Coachella Valley is one of North America's most distinctive and multifaceted venues — a polo club that doubles as one of the world's most famous music festival sites. Home to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival on its vast grounds, Empire is equally serious about polo, operating as a year-round facility with nine polo fields accommodating everything from beginner chukkas to high-goal tournaments. The club hosts the Gay Polo League's prestigious annual tournament, which draws LGBTQ+ players from across the USA and internationally and has become one of polo's most celebrated inclusive events. The California winter season (January–April) brings professional players seeking warm-weather competition, and the club's Arena Polo USA events provide exciting indoor polo action. The fusion of polo tradition and modern California entertainment culture makes Empire genuinely unlike any other club in the world.

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    Year-round

    Greenwich Polo Club

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    Greenwich Polo Club is one of the most exclusive polo venues in the United States, an elite Connecticut institution that has been closely associated with patron and businessman Peter Brant — one of American polo's most significant figures — and has hosted some of the highest-level polo events on the American summer circuit. Located in Greenwich, one of Connecticut's most affluent communities and a notable enclave of New York financial power, the club operates in a setting that reflects the social elite of the northeastern United States. It hosts major USPA events including high-goal tournaments during the summer season and has been the venue for international polo fixtures of considerable prestige. The grounds are beautifully maintained and the facilities reflect the wealth and standards of the Greenwich community, with an emphasis on quality that makes it one of America's finest polo venues. Greenwich Polo Club attracts leading Argentine and British professional players to compete with American patrons during the summer season, and the standard of polo here regularly approaches the highest levels in American polo. For European and South American polo followers, Greenwich represents quintessential American polo — wealthy, sophisticated, and played at genuinely high quality.

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    Year-round

    Honolulu Polo Club

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    Honolulu Polo Club is one of the world's most spectacularly located polo venues, bringing the sport to the paradise island setting of Oahu, Hawaii, with Sunday matches played at Mokuleia Beach on the island's breathtaking North Shore. The combination of polo played against a backdrop of the Pacific Ocean, the Waianae Mountains, and the lush Hawaiian landscape makes Honolulu Polo Club one of the most visually stunning sporting experiences available anywhere in the world. Founded in 1956, the club has a long tradition of Sunday afternoon polo that has become a cherished community institution, drawing both resident players and visitors to the North Shore for a uniquely Hawaiian sporting experience. The matches are open to spectators, who watch from the sideline or from the beach, creating a relaxed tropical atmosphere quite unlike the more formal polo venues of the mainland United States. The club hosts charity events, corporate polo experiences, and regular club chukkas throughout the year, taking advantage of Hawaii's year-round outdoor climate. For visitors to Oahu seeking an alternative to the island's more conventional tourist attractions, a Sunday afternoon at Honolulu Polo Club is an experience that combines sport, spectacular scenery, and genuine Hawaiian hospitality in equal measure.

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    International Polo Club Palm Beach

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    The International Polo Club Palm Beach (IPC) in Wellington, Florida, is America's premier polo venue and the undisputed hub of the US winter high-goal circuit. Located in the heart of Wellington's equestrian community, IPC hosts the prestigious US Open Polo Championship each spring, attracting Argentina's finest 10-goal professionals and the world's leading patrons. The club's grass fields and state-of-the-art facilities set the standard for American polo, while the surrounding Wellington area offers year-round equestrian infrastructure including stabling, trainers, and veterinary services of the highest calibre. From January through April, Wellington transforms into the polo capital of the Americas.

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    Meadow Brook Polo Club

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    Meadow Brook Polo Club carries the distinction of being one of the oldest polo clubs in the United States, with a history stretching back to 1881 when polo was first introduced to the Long Island Gold Coast by wealthy New York families who had encountered the game in England. Located in Old Westbury, Nassau County, Meadow Brook became the centre of American polo's gilded age — hosting international test matches, the Westchester Cup against England, and tournaments that drew the cream of New York society. The estates and polo grounds of Long Island's North Shore were the backdrop for some of polo's most storied moments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Meadow Brook was at the heart of it all. Though the club's scale has changed over a century, it retains its connection to that extraordinary heritage.

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    Year-round

    Miami Beach Polo

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    Miami Beach Polo World Cup is the most spectacular polo event in the United States and one of the most photographed sporting spectacles on earth. Held on the sands of South Beach along Ocean Drive, the tournament transforms Miami Beach's iconic Art Deco backdrop into a polo arena every spring, drawing international teams, global celebrities, and tens of thousands of spectators for a weekend of elite sport on the beach. The event is sanctioned by the USPA and features high-goal teams from across North America, South America, and Europe competing on a purpose-built arena pitch laid directly on the beach. The combination of elite polo, glamorous surroundings, and the energy of South Beach has made Miami Beach Polo a global media phenomenon, appearing in international fashion and lifestyle publications alongside sports coverage. Beyond the main tournament, the event generates a week-long social season of parties, brand activations, and celebrity appearances that have made it one of polo's most commercially successful properties.

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    NYC Polo Club

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    NYC Polo Club — based at Haviland Hollow Farm in Patterson, New York — is the metropolitan New York area's premier polo destination, providing city-based players and enthusiasts with access to serious polo within a comfortable drive of Manhattan. Set in the rolling hills of Putnam County, the club offers a genuine countryside polo experience that serves as a counterpoint to the urban intensity of New York City life.\n\nThe club operates a full programme of chukkas, lessons, and tournament play across its season, catering to players of all levels from complete beginners to experienced competitors. Its New York proximity makes it uniquely positioned to attract the city's polo-curious professional class — executives, finance professionals, and creatives who discover polo through the club's accessible beginner programmes and stay for the sport's extraordinary combination of skill, athleticism, and social energy.\n\nHaviland Hollow Farm's facilities include regulation polo fields, stabling, a clubhouse, and the green Putnam County countryside that provides a setting very different from Florida's flat polo plains or California's mountain backdrops. The distinctly northeastern character of the landscape — deciduous woodland, stone walls, and rolling pasture — creates a polo environment that feels rooted in American equestrian tradition.\n\nNYC Polo Club is the gateway into polo for many New Yorkers and a serious competitive club for those who have moved beyond their first chukkas. Its location serves a city whose residents have historically had to travel far to find polo, making it an essential institution for the sport in the northeastern United States.

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    National Polo Center

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    National Polo Center is the centrepiece of the Wellington, Florida polo world and the home venue of the US Polo Association's most prestigious events, including the USPA Gauntlet of Polo — the series that encompasses the C.V. Whitney Cup, the USPA Gold Cup, and the US Open Polo Championship. The facility represents a $60 million investment in polo infrastructure, featuring multiple world-class playing fields, state-of-the-art stabling, grandstand seating, and the administrative headquarters of the USPA. Wellington has become the winter polo capital of the United States and arguably the world's most active polo destination from January through April, with National Polo Center serving as its cathedral. The club attracts the world's top professionals, the most ambitious patrons, and a passionate polo public that follows the sport with a devotion unique to the Palm Beach county polo community.

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    New Bridge Polo & Country Club

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    New Bridge Polo & Country Club is a premier polo destination that combines championship polo facilities with the country estate atmosphere that defines the sport's most distinguished venues. The club attracts a membership of serious polo players and equestrian enthusiasts who value both the competitive standard of its polo programme and the broader country club lifestyle that surrounds it.\n\nThe club runs a full programme of competitive chukkas, club tournaments, and professional coaching, catering to players at every level from ambitious beginners to experienced competitors looking for regular high-quality practice. Its facilities include regulation polo fields, stabling, a clubhouse, and the infrastructure to host tournaments that attract players from across its regional circuit.\n\nNew Bridge's country club dimension — beyond polo — creates the social ecosystem that sustains a polo club's membership across seasons and generations. The combination of equestrian sport, social facilities, and the green countryside setting positions the club as both a sporting institution and a lifestyle destination.\n\nFor polo in its region, New Bridge Polo & Country Club represents an important hub — a venue where the sport's competitive and social dimensions combine to create the full polo experience that keeps members engaged through the seasons and across the years of a playing life.

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    Port Mayaca Polo Club

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    Port Mayaca Polo Club is a landmark venue in the American women's polo circuit, located on the western shore of Lake Okeechobee in South Florida's polo heartland. The club's wide-open fields and warm climate make it a premier winter-season destination for women's polo in the United States, hosting national championships that represent the highest level of the women's game in America.\n\nThe club's connection with women's polo has defined its identity — it has hosted USPA Women's Championship events and served as a proving ground for the players who define the modern American women's game. The expansive grounds along Lake Okeechobee provide space for multiple fields and a setting that combines rural Florida's natural beauty with championship polo infrastructure.\n\nPort Mayaca is accessible from the larger South Florida polo ecosystem centred on Wellington, making it a natural extension of the world's most concentrated polo region. Players based in Wellington during the winter season regularly make the drive to compete in Port Mayaca's tournaments, adding competitive depth to events that already attract the USA's best women players.\n\nFor spectators, Port Mayaca offers an authentic polo experience away from the manicured commercialism of Wellington — a venue where the sport itself is the focus and the Florida backwater landscape provides a distinctly American character.

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    Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club

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    Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club is one of America's most storied and scenic polo venues, perched between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean on California's celebrated south coast. Founded in 1911, it is among the oldest continuously operating polo clubs in the United States, a living piece of the sport's American heritage.\n\nThe club hosts the prestigious Pacific Coast Open — one of the USPA's most coveted trophies — drawing the world's top professionals to its immaculate grass fields each summer. The combination of championship polo and California's Mediterranean climate creates an atmosphere unlike any other venue in the country: morning fog giving way to warm afternoons, the mountains as backdrop, and the ocean as horizon.\n\nSanta Barbara's facilities include multiple regulation grass fields, a full clubhouse with dining terrace, professional stabling for visiting strings, and the spectator amenities that make Sunday matches a social event as much as a sporting one. The club attracts a mix of serious polo patrons, professional players, and Los Angeles-area celebrities who make the 90-minute drive north for a uniquely Californian polo experience.\n\nBeyond the Open, the club runs a full season of club chukkas, lessons for beginners and intermediate players, and a polo school programme that has introduced generations of Californians to the sport. Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club is where Pacific Coast polo reaches its highest expression.

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    Santa Clara Polo Club

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    Santa Clara Polo Club is a premier polo school and training facility serving the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley communities in Northern California. Situated in one of America's most affluent and innovation-driven regions, the club attracts a distinctive clientele of technology professionals, entrepreneurs, and equestrian enthusiasts seeking to learn one of the world's most demanding and rewarding sports. The club's lesson programme is designed for complete beginners through intermediate players, with qualified instructors guiding students through the fundamentals of horsemanship, mallet technique, and basic match play in a safe, structured environment. The progressive curriculum takes students from their first time in the saddle through to their first chukkers of competitive play, with the club's well-schooled lesson ponies providing the ideal platform for developing confidence and technique. Santa Clara Polo Club's Bay Area location makes it uniquely accessible to the density of wealthy, activity-seeking residents in the Silicon Valley corridor — an audience that has driven significant growth in the club's beginner and leisure polo programmes in recent years. The club has become a popular choice for team-building corporate events, private parties, and experiential gifting among the region's technology community, who appreciate the combination of physical challenge, social prestige, and equestrian heritage that polo uniquely provides.

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    Tinicum Park Polo Club

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    Tinicum Park Polo Club in Erwinna, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is one of America's oldest continuously operating polo grounds and a precious piece of living American sporting heritage. Founded in the early twentieth century and operating on land that has been devoted to polo for well over a hundred years, Tinicum Park occupies a place in American polo history that very few clubs can match. The grounds are set in the beautiful Delaware River valley countryside of Bucks County — one of Pennsylvania's most scenic and historic rural areas — and polo here has a wonderfully authentic character that connects to the sport's American roots. The club operates a community-oriented programme that welcomes players at a range of levels and maintains a welcoming, unpretentious atmosphere that reflects the genuine polo community character of the Bucks County area. Sunday matches have traditionally been a social institution in the region, drawing spectators from the broader community as much as dedicated polo followers. Tinicum Park is beloved by those who value polo's heritage and the idea of the sport as part of a living rural community tradition, rather than simply as a vehicle for high-level competition. Its survival and continued activity are a testament to the dedication of its membership.

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    Rules in United States

    USPA rules mirror HPA with minor arena variations.

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    USPA handicap system (-2 to 10 goals). Internationally recognized.

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