Trump’s New Links

It’s been a busy year for Donald J Trump. Not only is he trying to ‘save the planet’ from self-destructing, he’s also opening a new golf course near Aberdeen, Scotland.

Cheek by jowl to the much-praised Trump International Golf Links, now referred to as the ‘Old Course’, (even though it only opened in 2012), the ‘New Course’ will open this summer in June 2025.

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As he does, Trump assembled one of the best course-building teams in the business with Martin Hawtree, Christian Lundin and Christine Fraser on the design side and a group of the world’s finest engineers, environmentalists, agronomists and shapers on construction. His second son, Eric, has overseen the project as he did with the first course.

Occupying more varied terrain to the south and west of the original links, the New course combines sandy dunes, heather-clad heathlands and wide stretches of wetlands. There’s claim that the course will offer the ‘world’s largest, natural bunker’ and ancient, natural burns have been preserved.

The experience gained during the construction of the existing course no doubt gave the team a head start building in the ‘New’ and in typical Trump fashion, the team is referring to the entire operation as ‘the greatest 36 holes in golf’. Why not!