LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Team USA ended Europe's winning streak Sunday with an overwhelming performance at Valhalla Golf Club, winning the Ryder Cup 16½ to 11½.

The U.S. clinched it when Europe's Miguel Angel Jimenez conceded a short par putt to Jim Furyk at the 17th hole to give the home team the 14½ points needed to win.

PGA officials called Louisville's hosting of the Ryder Cup a tremendous success. Now there's talk Valhalla could land another major event.

PGA CEO Joe Steranka was quoted in a local publication saying, "We'll be back," but wouldn't elaborate. The immediate focus at Valhalla is cleaning up from this latest event.

Organizers say the course shapes up well for the future.

"This site took about two-and-a-half months to build and it'll take about three weeks to make a big impact on coming down," said Tournament Director Tara Guenthner.

Guenthner said she hasn't come down from the high of Sunday night -- not only a U.S. victory, but a major international event with no major incidents. Guenthner credits the city with playing a role in that, and the PGA said the state was a help, or more accurately, not a hindrance.

"Any type of red tape, if you want to call it that, we'd have to try to get through, we didn't have any of that here," said Operations Manager Ben Rubin.

Space and the PGA's recent improvements to Valhalla made Rubin's job of setting up 65 chalets, 12,000 temporary seats and taking it all down, as easy as could expected.

"There's a lot of golf courses out there that would not be able to handle an event this size and the equipment of that nature," he said.

These are all things that could bode well for event consideration at Valhalla. Six out of the next seven PGA championships are spoken for, but 2014's is still undecided, begging the question: Where does Valhalla fit in?

"There's discussions taking place now, but we'll have to wait and see," Rubin said.

"I don't have any inside information about future events, but I think Louisville and Kentucky rolled out a red carpet like none other, and I hope they are rewarded by the PGA in the future sometime," Guenthner said.

Another thing that could bode well for Valhalla is the PGA actually owns this course, which could be a money-saver for the organization.

There has been no word on when an announcement could come on that 2014 championship.