LONDON — The 2018 Ryder Cup venue will be announced Tuesday, with many players and fans hoping European golf officials will honor Seve Ballesteros by sending the event to Spain.

The five-time major winner died this month following a three-year struggle against the effects of a brain tumor. Ballesteros’ family is among those suggesting that Tres Cantos, north of Madrid, should win out over bids from France, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal.

“It would be the greatest tribute to him,” Baldomero Ballesteros said at his brother’s funeral last week. “I appeal to the sensitivity of the Ryder Cup Committee of the European Tour to agree the greatest honor that could be bestowed on Seve is to award the competition to Spain.”

Forever linked with the Ryder Cup after leading Europe to victory as player and captain, a weakened Ballesteros even made a rare public appearance in May 2010 to support Spain’s bid.

“It would have made my brother very happy, for it was one of his dreams,” Baldomero Ballesteros said.

But while none dispute that Ballesteros deserves honoring, some dissenting voices suggest that a tournament still seven years away is not the way to do it.

Former European Ryder Cup captain Bernhard Langer pointed out that Spain already held the tournament in 1997, when Ballesteros led Europe to a single-point win.

“Absolutely unfair,” Langer said in an interview with Spain’s El Mundo newspaper. “It’s time the Ryder Cup went to Germany, France and Portugal.

“There’d be no big problem if it were to return to Spain again but it would be unfair.”

Like Ballesteros, Langer also won the Ryder Cup as captain and player.

Padraig Harrington, Nick Faldo and Colin Montgomerie are among those to suggest that a fitting tribute to Ballesteros would be for the European Tour to adopt a silhouette image of Ballesteros at its logo.

The best-known course under consideration is Le Golf National near Paris, which has been the venue for all but two French Opens in the last 20 years.