Seven Countries Race For Ryder Cup ‘22
Seven European countries have declared an interest in hosting the 2022 edition of golf’s Ryder Cup, after organisers revealed that golfing authorities in Austria, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Turkey officially registered an interest before the deadline.
Official bids must now be submitted by 16th February before the Ryder Cup Europe body selects the host nation in autumn next year.
The tournament will take place at Hazeltine Golf Club in Minnesota, US in 2016 before returning to Europe in 2018 at Le Golf National in Paris and then switching back to the US at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin in 2020.
Ryder Cup director Richard Hills said: ‘We are absolutely delighted at the level of interest we have received from across Europe in respect of hosting the 2022 Ryder Cup and we welcome each and every one of the seven letters of intent, each received through the respective national golf association, in accordance with bidding regulations.’
‘The implementation of this kind of formal bidding process for the 2018 Ryder Cup marked a new era for us all at Ryder Cup Europe, and this take up for 2022 shows that the introduction of a fair, transparent and objective methodology has been welcomed across the continent.’
‘Not only that, we feel it is a process which befits a sporting event of the stature of the Ryder Cup and, as we have consistently stated, the key criteria in place will enable us to evaluate each bid equally on both its sporting and commercial merits while, at the same time, allowing us to judge each bid fairly, thoroughly and on a level playing field.’
The 2014 edition of the biennial tournament between the US and Europe will be staged at Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland, from 26th to 28th September.
