VIRGINIA WATER, England — A Scottish golf course owned by U.S. President Donald Trump will host a event on the European tour in August.
Trump Worldwide Golf Hyperlinks Scotland will stage the Scottish Championship from Aug. 7-10 after being added to the 2025 schedule by the tour Tuesday.
The course in Aberdeen is certainly one of two owned by Trump in Scotland. The opposite is Trump Turnberry, which is certainly one of 10 programs on the rotation to host the British Open — the oldest of the 4 main championships in males’s golf — however hasn’t staged that occasion since 2009.
Will probably be the primary time Trump Worldwide has staged an occasion on the European tour, although the course has been used for a event on the seniors’ tour in 2023 and 2024 and can achieve this once more this yr, the week earlier than the Scottish Championship.
Eric Trump, govt vp of the Trump Group, stated internet hosting back-to-back occasions at Trump Worldwide marked a “vital milestone.”
The Scottish Championship was final performed on the European tour in October 2020.
Trump’s programs additionally host occasions on the breakaway LIV Golf circuit.
The R&A, which organizes British Opens, has pointed to logistical and infrastructure points as the primary issue behind Turnberry’s failure to be awarded the key since 2009, when Stewart Cink beat 59-year-old Tom Watson in a playoff.
In 2021, the R&A’s then-CEO, Martin Slumbers, stated the Open wouldn’t be returning to Turnberry “till we’re satisfied that the main focus shall be on the championship, the gamers and the course itself and we don’t imagine that’s achievable within the present circumstances” — maybe a nod to Trump’s possession of the course.
The R&A’s stance seems to have softened, although, beneath just lately employed CEO Mark Darbon, who stated final month that his group was “performing some feasibility work” relating to a potential return to Turnberry.
Trump Worldwide, in northern Scotland, has a panoramic view of offshore wind generators not removed from Aberdeen seaside.
The Scottish authorities’s approval of the wind farm drew the ire of Trump as a result of he regarded the generators as “ugly” and spoiling the views at his luxurious golf resort close by.
