{"id":658852,"date":"2026-06-26T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658852\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:33:08","slug":"ryder-cup-founder-honoured-with-st-albans-blue-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/658852\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryder Cup founder honoured with St Albans blue plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A blue plaque honouring the founder of the Ryder Cup has been unveiled at a building he commissioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Relatives of Samuel Ryder, who is buried in St Albans in Hertfordshire and was a former mayor of the city, attended the ceremony at his former Seed and Exhibition Hall in Holywell Hill on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ryder built his fortune through a pioneering mail-order seed business, selling penny seed packets that made gardening accessible to working people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He later enlisted the architect Percival Blow to design the hall in 1931, which &#8220;still stands as a testament to his entrepreneurial vision&#8221;, said Professor Tim Boatswain, chair of Blue Plaques St Albans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Following an informal golf tournament between Great Britain and the US the year before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rydercup.com\/news-media\/five-things-to-know-about-the-ryder-cup-trophy\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryder donated the prize trophy in 1927, external<\/a> that would bear his name, establishing one of the world&#8217;s most prestigious sporting competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blue plaque honouring the founder of the Ryder Cup has been unveiled at a building he commissioned.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658852","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=658852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}