Under strict instructions, from one of the secret service members, not to follow the group the President was playing in, I did then go out on the course and walk every hole around the Balmedie Dunes.
Future hosts of the Open Championship were a hot topic during Wednesday’s pre-tournament press conference at Royal Portrush, with new R&A CEO Mark Darbon addressing numerous options, from Trump Turnberry’s possible return to the feasibility of a groundbreaking edition at Portmarnock Golf Club in Ireland.
Trump ruffled feathers when he accepted a $US400 million “Palace in the Sky” jumbo jet from the Qatari government just days after his private business, the Trump Organisation, finalised plans to construct a luxury golf resort in the Middle Eastern nation.
Australian Golf Digest has learned the DP World Tour is finalising a deal to bring a tournament to one of US president Donald Trump’s Scotland golf courses, beginning this August.
The R&A has restated it has no intentions of returning the Open Championship to Trump Turnberry, but largely due to logistics and commercial enterprise.
McIlroy has the attention of some of the most powerful people in the world, and he’s not afraid to offer an opinion or listen intently when the time is right.
Monahan spoke days after the tour announced that he (along with player representative Adam Scott) met with US president Donald Trump regarding negotiations between the tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.
The sand dunes in which the first course at Trump International Golf Links in Aberdeen, Scotland are as dramatic as there are in golf. Now there will be a second course at the resort.
Our August cover star Bryson DeChambeau is at it again, racking up millions more views on his smash-hit YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@brysondechambeau) thanks to the latest edition of his “Break 50” video series.
The most-heated part of yesterday’s debate between current president Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump may have revolved around the golf games of the two candidates.
Australian Golf Digest
