Multi-millionaire businessman Terry Matthews, whose Celtic Manor golf resort in South Wales will host the 2010 Ryder Cup, has rejected suggestions that the bidding process for the event was in any way underhand.

"The bid from day one was always a bit like a tender and there was a set of things you have to respond to and a set of things that are nailed down on paper," he told BBC radio on Monday. "And we won the bid - it's not very complicated."

Celtic Manor, a hotel and leisure complex on an imposing hillside location not far from the Severn Bridge, beat off competition from five other courses - Slaley Hall in northern England and the Scottish quartet of Gleneagles, Loch Lomond, Turnberry and Carnoustie.

Gleneagles, however, has been named as host for the 2014 Ryder Cup - the first in Scotland since Muirfield in 1973 - while all subsequent contests in Europe between 2018 and 2030 will be held outside the British Isles.

Matthews said that, because of the Gleneagles decision, Scotland could also consider themselves winners. "Scotland didn't lose. They have the Ryder Cup in 2014. That sounds like a win to me," he said.

There has been widespread criticism of the bidding process, though, and many felt the result was a foregone conclusion after Ken Schofield, the executive director of the PGA European Tour, said back in May that he wanted the match to go to Wales.

Matthews believes that upping the Welsh bid from its initial £35 million sterling to £50 million sterling had been a significant factor.

"Bringing up the value of the bid was crucial," he said. "There was a hurdle and we had to clear the hurdle. Scotland has better facilities generally."

Celtic Manor, which features a 400-room hotel, health clubs, restaurants and three golf courses, will undergo further change before 2010. Seven holes on the Ryder course will be redesigned to make it "less hilly".