One section of the application focuses on the potential economic impacts.<\/p>\n
It states that the club already attracts about 10,000 international visitors each golf season making it “one of the most significant tourism drivers” in the Mourne area and Northern Ireland as a whole.<\/p>\n
It adds that independent research suggests the Open in Portrush last year had “a total economic impact of \u00a389.2m” to Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
The Royal County Down plans have already been the subject of a public consultation.<\/p>\n
They will now be considered by the planning committee of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.<\/p>\n
Work on the scheme could begin in the 2027 off-season, subject to planning.<\/p>\n
The standard of the course is only one element of qualifying to host the Open. <\/p>\n
The event’s organiser, the R&A, also need to see evidence that the venue has infrastructure to safely host tens of thousands of spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One section of the application focuses on the potential economic impacts. It states that the club already attracts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807988","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\/807988","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=807988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}