Italy gears up for 2022 Ryder Cup

Italy will host the Ryder Cup for the first time when the biennial event heads to Rome’s Marco Simone Golf and Country Club in 2022.

It will be only the third time the event has been staged in continental Europe, following Valderrama in Spain in 1997 and Le Golf National in France which gets the event in 2018.

Four nations - Italy, Austria, German, and Spain - had been in the final running after Denmark, Portugal and Turkey withdrew their interest.