Footballers too many to choose from, Sophia Loren, endless TV cooking show hosts, Mussolini, the Godfather, on and on it goes. As for golf it is Constantina Rocca and Edoardo and Francesco Molinari and Matteo Manassero.
Well all that will change because the Ryder Cup is headed to Italy for the first time, with the Marco Simone club in Rome chosen Monday to host golf’s biggest team event in 2022.
Italy beat rival bids from Germany, Spain and Austria to secure hosting rights for the 44th edition of the Ryder Cup.
It will be the third time the event is staged in continental Europe, after Valderrama in Spain in 1997 and Le Golf National in Paris in 2018.
The Jim Fazio-designed course, which hosted the 1994 Italian Open, is located in Guidonia, 27 kilometers northeast of central Rome. The course will undergo a complete reconstruction for the Ryder Cup.
The course will likely form part of Rome’s bid for the 2024 Olympics. Rome is competing against Paris, Los Angeles and Budapest, Hungary for the games. Golf is returning to the Olympics next year in Rio de Janeiro.
Hazeltine National in Minnesota will host the Ryder Cup next year, followed by Le Golf National in 2018 and Whistling Straits in Wisconsin in 2020
Bryan Angus
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