Golf’s Ryder Cup to be held in Scotland
November 12th, 2007
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.
I’m sure the coming matches will be as eagerly anticipated and fought over as the early ones, but with Ryder’s enduring legacy of friendship and hospitality as strong as ever
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