{"id":189733,"date":"2025-10-10T05:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189733\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:27:06","slug":"luton-hoo-bids-to-host-ryder-cup-with-170m-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189733\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton Hoo bids to host Ryder Cup with \u00a3170m upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gary Johnston, 47, designer with European Golf Design, said his company was also behind the design of Celtic Manor in Wales which hosted the Ryder Cup in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said they were partly owned by the European Tour, &#8220;so we know exactly what is needed for a championship golf course&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He described Luton Hoo as &#8220;a truly special landscape&#8221; where they would be &#8220;working with some of the features Capability Brown created&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said designing a golf course for it &#8220;was beyond your wildest dreams really&#8221; and it was &#8220;very conceivable&#8221; the venue could host a Ryder Cup in 10 years&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This site has the space and the access and everything else you would need,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Johnston, 47, designer with European Golf Design, said his company was also behind the design of Celtic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-189733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}