Bolton Bids To Host 'biggest Ever' Ryder Cup

A bid to bring golf's Ryder Cup to Bolton could beryllium boosted by nan announcement of a £70m roadworthy scheme.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham announced nan M61-M6 nexus roadworthy scheme and said it could fortify nan bid for a caller play people successful Hulton Park to big nan arena successful 2035.

He said nan bid was "not pastry successful nan sky", and location had been "promising conversations" pinch organisers astir "bringing nan tourney to a bespoke, world-class people astatine Hulton Park".

Southport's Tommy Fleetwood, master golfer and Ryder Cup winner, said it would beryllium "incredible" to bring "the biggest sporting arena successful nan world" to nan north-west of England.

Burnham said: "We're deadly superior astir it. We judge we tin onshore [the Ryder Cup] and now it's a lawsuit of putting successful a patient bid adjacent period and hopefully a determination soon."

The announcement came arsenic portion of nan latest information of backing for projects aimed astatine increasing Greater Manchester's economy.

If nan Bolton bid was successful it would beryllium nan first clip successful much than 30 years that nan arena is staged successful England.

The Ryder Cup takes spot each 2 years and sees 24 of nan champion players from Europe and nan United States spell head-to-head complete 3 days successful lucifer play competition.

The 2 continents return it successful turns to big nan event.

Bolton Council leader Nick Peel told BBC Radio Manchester that hosting nan Ryder Cup would bring large benefits.

"The lasting boost for our section system will beryllium immense and, of course, we've besides had nan announcement of £70m to thief present Park Avenue, nan caller shape of nan M61- M6 nexus roadworthy which will beryllium perfectly important for that portion of Bolton."

Burnham said hosting nan arena could not hap "without awesome investments successful infrastructure successful nan area".

He said he would now inquire Chancellor Rachel Reeves to accelerate nan transportation of much predominant and modern trains connected nan Atherton line, put successful amended obstruction stations and velocity up activity to link nan area to nan Metrolink network.

The existent world number 3 Fleetwood was portion of nan Europe squad that lifted past year's Ryder Cup and he is backing nan bid to bring nan arena to nan region.

"As a golfer, a Ryder Cup being successful England, first and foremost, would beryllium thing special," he said.

"On apical of that, to do it successful nan north-west of England, wherever I'm from, would beryllium amazing."

"We person truthful overmuch to offer, nan group person a batch to offer, nan infrastructure has a batch to offer, and I deliberation it would beryllium thing that would beryllium incredible," Fleetwood added.

He said nan Ryder Cup was nan "biggest sporting arena successful nan world", adding if it came present "we'd retrieve it forever".

Two play courses successful England vying for nan 2035 arena are nan London Golf Club successful Sevenoaks, Kent, and Luton Hoo successful Bedfordshire.

The past clip nan arena was held successful England was astatine The Belfry successful Warwickshire successful 2002.

There has been guidance to nan play people plan, which antecedently included building 1,000 homes and a by-pass astir Westhoughton.

Westhoughton-born character Maxine Peake was among nan campaigners against it, describing it arsenic a "housing task successful play clothing".

But Burnham told nan BBC it was his knowing that immoderate lodging scheme would now beryllium taxable to a abstracted readying connection connected merit and did not shape portion of nan play people scheme.

"Obviously, there's nan interest astir greenish space, but a play people does sphere a batch of greenish abstraction and provides routes for group done it," he said.

The backing announcement besides included caller cycling and stepping routes, and caller autobus routes to nan Ryder Cup site.

The parkland forms portion of an property owned for much than 700 years by nan Hulton dynasty.

After falling into neglect, it was bought by Peel L&P successful 2010.