Ryder candidates to meet

THE six nations bidding for the 2018 Ryder Cup in Europe have been invited to come together at a Heathrow hotel on January 13 to share opinions, information and questions.

France, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden are the candidate countries and they have to submit their bids by the end of April.

Ryder Cup Europe will announce the winner in 2011 and director Richard Hills said yesterday: “This is as thorough an evaluation process as we have ever embarked upon in determining a host nation and venue.