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Run up to the Ryder Cup: Episode 2

Episode 2

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The planning process threatens to delay demolition of a building by the 18th hole.

Documentary following preparations for the 2010 Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in South Wales. The planning process threatens to delay demolition of a building by the 18th hole.

One of the world's biggest sporting events, the 2010 Ryder Cup, tees off in just four days... In the second part of our series charting the behind- the-scenes preparations, we catch up with progress at Welsh host city, Newport, in South Wales.

It's January 2010, and Celtic Manor director Russell Phillips waits anxiously for the go-ahead to demolish a derelict listed farmhouse right next to the eighteenth hole...but the planning process is complicated, and time is running out to relocate the ruin before the world's media beam images of it across the world...

At the clubhouse, interviews are underway to find golf assistants..in an area devastated by the economic  recession, every job is precious - and unemployed warehouse worker Selwyn fights off nerves as he faces very stiff competition.

Meanwhile, Newport City council leader Matthew Evans's nerves are already frayed, as he finds out a vital footbridge linking the railway station to the city may not be ready for the Ryder Cup.

And as new revelations about Tiger Woods hit the headlines, there's still a question-mark over whether the world's most famous golfer will even make the Ryder Cup...

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Follows the preparations for the 2010 Ryder Cup in South Wales

As the 2010 Ryder Cup tees off at the Celtic Manor course in South Wales, this programme follows the preparations of Newport council as they try to make the event a success

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