Golf’s 40th Ryder Cup will be hosted in Scotland in 2014 at the Gleneagles Hotel & golf resort on the exceptional PGA Centenary Course created by Jack Nicklaus.
The first informal competition between British and American teams, a forerunner to the Ryder Cup matches, was held on The King’s Course at The Gleneagles Hotel in 1921. A strong British team that included James Braid, the course designer, won this competition.
Samuel Ryder was an Englishman from St. Albans in Hertfordshire who made his fortune selling penny seed packets. It was he who commissioned the design of the gold chalice that bears his name for the matches which were held in 1927 at Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts. The United States team defeated the team from Great Britain in that historic first Ryder Cup Match.
November 12th, 2007
Glasgow has won the right to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The decision of the 71 voting nations was announced on November 9, 2007 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to the delight of all those involved in preparing the bid and all in Glasgow and Scotland.
We are looking forward to some terrific developments taking place in Glasgow over the next few years, increasing and improving the sports facilities and the city infrastructure. This is a fabulous opportunity to enthuse and inspire some of our kids - a real, actual, wordwide competition, right in our back yard. I wonder how many of our kids will be thinking - I want to win a medal for Scotland!
November 12th, 2007