{"id":485457,"date":"2026-03-20T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485457\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T07:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:55:23","slug":"greater-manchester-set-for-major-summer-of-sport-hosting-ryder-cup-solheim-cup-and-world-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/485457\/","title":{"rendered":"Greater Manchester set for \u2018major summer of sport\u2019 hosting Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup, and World Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

As well as the Ryder Cup, the mayor announced a bid for the golf’s Solheim Cup and the Women’s World Cup Final in the same year<\/p>\n

Rory McIlroy celebrates during the Ryder Cup in New York – Greater Manchester wants similar crowds in Bolton(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Greater Manchester could be in for \u2018a major summer of sport\u2019 with the World Cup final, Ryder Cup, and Solheim Cup, Andy Burnham<\/a> has said.<\/p>\n

The mayor announced a bid to host the Ryder Cup in 2035, golf\u2019s largest men\u2019s event, on Wednesday morning (March 18). It will be \u2018submitted by the middle of next month\u2019 ahead of an expected \u00a3240m construction of the Hulton Park golf resort in Bolton<\/a> and completion of new infrastructure funded by the mayor\u2019s Good Growth Fund.<\/p>\n

Burnham confirmed later on Wednesday the bid includes a desire to host the Solheim Cup, often called the women\u2019s Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n

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He has previously said he wants a new Old Trafford stadium to host the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup final in the same year. The UK is the sole bidder to host the tournament, which will be the first Women\u2019s World Cup with 48 teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is certainly in the top five biggest sporting events in the world. We\u2019re looking at 2035 being a major summer of sport here in Greater Manchester because we\u2019re hopeful the Women\u2019s FIFA World Cup will come to England,\u201d Burnham said.<\/p>\n

\"England<\/p>\n

England stars and best mates Ella Toone and Alessia Russo pose with the UEFA Women’s EURO trophy which they won last year(Image: Florencia Tan Jun – UEFA\/UEFA via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd we want a new Old Trafford<\/a> to host that final, and we will be working hard to land that alongside the Ryder Cup and the Solheim Cup. I haven\u2019t really put that into the public domain yet, but this has got to be about women\u2019s sport and men\u2019s sport at the highest level, celebrating it all in the summer of 2035.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some \u00a3420m from the Good Growth Fund will go to 12 projects across the city, with \u00a369.8m specifically for an M61 to M6 link road around the Bolton golf project.<\/p>\n

However, some have questioned the rationale behind which projects secure backing after Burnham said a priority of the fund was to drive economic growth in areas outside the city centre. Funding varies dramatically between each borough.<\/p>\n

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Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham (Image: PA Wire)<\/p>\n

While Trafford will receive \u00a3113m in this round of funding, neighbouring Salford<\/a> will only receive less than a million pounds. But the mayor dismissed suggestions the funding makes rich boroughs richer and poor areas poorer.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI\u2019m always open to being challenged about that. The whole concept of the good growth fund is breaking with the old trickle down model of growth in the past, waiting for the crumbs to fall off the table.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re breaking with that. We are going into the places that deserve to be backed, deserve investment, and then creating a new market for investment in those places.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Ryder Cup actually is in a part of Greater Manchester or will be, that is in need of significant infrastructure investment. We\u2019re confirming the first phase of the link road but as part of that, I will be writing to the chancellor to ask her to work with us to accelerate the tram-train through Atherton Station, Hagfold, Daisy Hill. That is absolutely taking investment to some of the more deprived parts of the city region.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has also pledged to scrutinise spending after it emerged \u00a360m will be spent on a new tram stop on an existing Metrolink<\/a> line in north Manchester. He added: \u201cTransport for Greater Manchester does not have a record of goldplating or going over-budget. It\u2019s a new piece of significant infrastructure because it\u2019s serving a community that doesn\u2019t have that infrastructure at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I will always challenge them to get the cost right down. It\u2019s frustrating how much new public transport infrastructure costs at times.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Good Growth Funding allocations are expected to be approved by a meeting of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority on March 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As well as the Ryder Cup, the mayor announced a bid for the golf’s Solheim Cup and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[19306,2193,172234,5904,10088,229,6547,101,2445,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-485457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-andy-burnham","tag-bolton","tag-fifa-womens-world-cup","tag-golf","tag-old-trafford","tag-politics","tag-ryder-cup","tag-sports","tag-trafford","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485457","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=485457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}