TRUMP CARDS Inside Donald Trump’s controversial Scottish golf empire as FIFTH course branded ‘vanity project’ takes shape
SCOTLAND is the home of golf – and also the ancestral seat of Donald Trump’s mother Mary Anne.
So it was perhaps inevitable that the former US president – a man said by Jack Nicklaus “to love golf more than he loves money” – was going to make it a central part of a golf empire which stretches to NINETEEN golf resorts globally.
We told you how the FIFTH course at his TWO Scottish developments is currently in production.
It will be situated at his existing Trump International resort in Menie, around 10 miles north of Aberdeen, with builders breaking ground on it last year.
It will be a second 18-hole project, situated next to Trump’s original course built in 2012, and named the MacLeod Course.
That’s in homage to the maiden name of Trump’s late mother, Mary Anne, who was born in Scotland before emigrating to New York.
It will feature world’s largest natural bunker, mountainous sand dunes, and infinity greens hugging the coastal dune ridge – all sitting next to the existing championship links course.
But there’s already been stirrings of unrest, with Scottish Greens MSP for the North East region slamming it as: “A vanity project, through & through!
“The approval of this course took no consideration for the services people really need, really want, or the beautiful natural environment in the Shire.”
Plans for the resort initially included a 450-bedroom hotel on-site – but currently accommodation is limited to just 21 rooms and a lodge.
