Ryder Cup tickets "were being offered for resale" for more than £1,000 ($1,630) on the "leading online exchanges" on Tuesday night in defiance of warnings that "anyone buying them faced being refused entry," according to Ben Rumsby of the London TELEGRAPH. Second-hand tickets listed as "general admission" were on the Viagogo and Stubhub websites three days before the event tees off at Gleneagles. Stubhub was involved in the unauthorized resale of tickets "despite posting a disclaimer on its site admitting customers were not permitted to purchase them." A Ryder Cup 2014 spokesperson confirmed that all 135,000 tickets for the event were "non-transferable, warning spectators they could be turned away if they failed to bring photographic identification to Gleneagles." Tickets were available on Stubhub for up to £1,071.44 ($1,750.50) for Sunday's play and closing ceremony "even though attempting to buy them" generated the following disclaimer: "You will not be able to purchase tickets for this event because the 2014 Ryder Cup requires the photo ID and the payment card used by the original buyer to present these at the entrance." Viagogo, which was advertising similar tickets for up to £900 ($1,470) and four-day passes for £1,295 ($2,116), denied purchasers of tickets on its site "would be refused entry." Viagogo spokesperson Oliver Wheeler said, "Some Ryder Cup tickets are personalized but all the Ryder Cup tickets on Viagogo are not and our buyers are guaranteed to get in" (TELEGRAPH, 9/24).
