But the Bedminster course is considered one of the crown jewels of Trump's golf portfolio. Mickie Gallagher, the club's director of golf, told NJ Advance Media last year that while Trump usually buys struggling courses and refurbishes them, Bedminster was built from scratch.
BEDMINSTER -- A typically quiet part of central New Jersey is suddenly the epicenter of American politics this weekend. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to spend the next few days holding meetings with his transition team at his upscale private golf club in the bucolic hills of Somerset County.
And members are said to include a few celebrities: former Yankees manager Joe Torre, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (now a top Trump adviser) -- and, yes, former President Bill Clinton, the husband of the woman Trump beat for the presidency, Hillary Clinton. Gallagher said most of the club's 425 members live in New Jersey.
Before Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he was well-known in the golf community as the namesake of the courses and grounds that share his name. There are 11 Trump Golf-owned properties in the United States, two in Scotland, one in Ireland and one in the United Arab Emirates.
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Here are seven things to know about Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster: 1. The property once belonged to another celebrity mogul. Much of the course sits on the former estate of the late automaker John DeLorean, who bought the property in 1981 -- around the same time he introduced the wing-doored car later made famous by "Back to the Future.".
Trump opened two more private golf clubs in New Jersey, one in Colts Neck and the other in Pine Hill, just outside of Philadelphia. And in all, he owns 17 golf courses around the globe.
senators asked Mike Davis, executive director of the United States Golf Association, to move the Women's Open out of Bedminster because they said Trump has shown a "pattern of degrading and dehumanizing women" over the years.
Trump, who advanced his fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an Atlantic City casino owner, bought the Bedminster property -- located in the heart of New Jersey's horse-farm country -- for about $35 million in 2002. The 535-acre club includes two 18-hole courses designed by renowned golf architect Tom Fazio.
Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, married Jared Kushner, the New Jersey-bred developer and publishing magnate, at a lavish ceremony at the club in 2009. Gallagher said the couple also has a cottage on the property.
Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. Since Mar-a-Lago closed on Mother's Day, Donald Trump has bestowed most of his favor to the Trump National Golf Club, in Bedminster, New Jersey. He has a choice of several other properties, but Beminster is where he will spend his 17-day vacation there from August 4 to 20.
At a media preview day on May 23, USGA executive director Mike Davis kept the focus on golf: "When we came here, this was all about coming to a great golf course and playing the greatest championship in women's golf,'' Davis said.
5 Like Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster is expensive to join. Trump National Golf Club Bedminster. The initiation fee can be as much as $350,000, according to the Real Deal and the New Yorker. (That's actually more than Mar-a-Lago, which increased its initiation fee to $200,000 in January, following the election).
Before Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he was well-known in the golf community as the namesake of the courses and grounds that share his name.
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The 11th hole at the Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter. (The Trump Organization)
President Donald Trump, in golf attire, departs the White House for the drive to his Trump National Gold Club in Sterling, Virginia, July 14, 2019. The New York Times reported extensively last year on the techniques Trump used to avoid paying taxes on the eight-figure fortune he inherited from his father, which has served as the basis ...
The Trump Organization, the president’s family business, did not respond to HuffPost’s questions regarding the goats’ purpose or market value. Nor did Rob Wagner, the golf course official who signed the farmland assessment application. The White House also did not respond to goat-related queries.