Ryder Cup 2018 decision in May 10/02/2011 |
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The venue for the 2018 Ryder Cup will be announced on May 17, it has been confirmed.
France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands are battling to stage the event for the first time.
It will be only the second time the match has been staged in continental Europe after Valderrama on Spain's Costa del Sol played host in 1997.
The official announcement, to be made at the European Tour's Wentworth headquarters, comes at the conclusion of the first formal bid process undertaken by Ryder Cup Europe, which commenced at the end of 2008.
Richard Hills, Ryder Cup director, said: "It has been a hugely challenging and stimulating process, taking almost 18 months to complete."
Sweden was also involved in the early stages, but pulled out last March for financial reasons and said it would focus on the 2022 match instead.
An evaluation panel then undertook a detailed process to validate the five bids, including site inspections, and each of the candidates submitted a bid document.
Hills continued: "On May 17 we will be able to announce one gold medallist and four silver medallists.
"All five could have hosted the 2018 Ryder Cup based on the detail and quality of their bids and, although one country will be successful, we look forward to continuing our close relationships with each one of those five countries in the future."
Bid director David MacLaren added: "At the outset, we said that we wanted to make the right sporting decision and the right commercial decision.
"We then set our five key criteria against which the bids would ultimately be judged: provision of a world-class golf course; infrastructure required to deliver the Ryder Cup; government, private and golfing support; commercial opportunities for Ryder Cup Europe; and the contribution of the host nation to the development of golf."
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