Gleneagles is not on “standby” to host next year’s Ryder Cup, despite claims that some Americans are "anxious about the match being staged in France following some of the terrorist attacks there in the past year," according to Martin Dempster of the SCOTSMAN. It was recently reported that a "secret plan" had been drawn up to "pave the way" for the '18 event to be switched to the Perthshire venue on short notice. European Tour CEO Keith Pelley said, "To be honest, we chuckled at that story and it seemed every day that we chuckled a little louder because that's not true. We did not have any conversation internally. We've had no conversations with Gleneagles. We've had no conversations with the Scottish Police. We've had no conversations with the Scottish Government." The claim about the 42nd Ryder Cup, which is due to be held at Le Golf National outside Paris and will be only the second time the biennial contest has been played in Continental Europe, "came in the wake of an attack at Paris Orly airport last month." Pelley: "We didn't even feel the need to respond because, quite frankly, it is nonsensical. It is just not going to happen" (SCOTSMAN, 4/9).
