The Trump Organization operates the Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point, New York, a public golf course built and owned by New York City, under a 20-year contract awarded in 2013 by the administration of then-Mayor Bloomberg.
Trump International Golf Links, Scotland is a golf course in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, owned by Donald Trump. It opened in 2012.
Take a look at the golf courses owned by Donald TrumpTrump National Golf Club, Bedminster. ... Trump National Golf Club, Charlotte. ... Trump National Golf Club, Colts Neck. ... Trump National Doral Golf Club. ... Trump National Golf Club, Hudson Valley. ... Trump National Golf Club, Jupiter. ... Trump National Golf Club, Los Angeles.More items...•
Golf at Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point is open to both New York City residents and non-residents. Our close proximity to JFK and LaGuardia airports make accessing our award winning championship course easy. Greens fees are inclusive of a discounted practice facility fee and an administrative fee.
The Trump OrganizationTrump National Golf Club, Los Angeles is a public golf club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California with a 7,242-yard (6,622 m) course designed by Pete Dye and Donald J. Trump Signature Design. It is owned by The Trump Organization. Rancho Palos Verdes, California, U.S.
In February 2014, the lodge and golf club was bought by American businessman Donald Trump for an estimated €15M. The Lodge at Doonbeg consists of 218 hotel suites, a spa and several restaurants managed by the Trump Hotel Collection.
There are 12 Trump Golf-owned properties in the United States, two in Scotland, one in Ireland and one in the United Arab Emirates. The Trump Organization manages Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in New York, though for a short period of time it lost control until winning a legal battle.
Answer. Donald Trump (The Trump Organization) owns 19 golf courses world wide.
ClubCorp is a privately held American corporation based in Dallas and is the largest owner and operator of private golf and country clubs in the country. It owns or operates more than 200 golf and country clubs and business, sports and alumni clubs worldwide.
The average of all pricing tiers is $212, with the most expensive being $300 and the most affordable $80, though the prices don't include sales tax.
Donald Trump's wonderful world of public golfBlue Monster at Trump National Doral Miami. ... Red Tiger and Golden Palm at Trump National Doral Miami. ... Silver Fox at Trump National Doral Miami. ... Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles. ... Trump International Golf Links Scotland.More items...•
TIME has reported that initiation fees alone cost as much as $350,000. And that's before any annual fees, which have been reported to be anywhere from $14,000 to $25,000.
Turnberry (golf course)Club informationLocationSouth Ayrshire, ScotlandEstablished1906, 116 years agoTypePrivateOwned byThe Trump Organization19 more rows
Old Course at St AndrewsClub informationLocationSt Andrews, ScotlandEstablished1552 (469 years ago)TypePublicOwned byFife Council12 more rows
Darwin EscapesDundonald Links, one of Scotland's leading championship golf courses, has been acquired by Darwin Escapes, the operator of 21 lodge resorts, holiday parks and golf courses around the UK.
EnnismoreGleneagles HotelClub informationTypePrivateOwned byEnnismoreTotal holes63Tournaments hostedRyder Cup, Johnnie Walker Championship24 more rows
Donald Trump "bankrupted" a golf course in Puerto Rico, leaving taxpayers there on the hook for $33 million worth of debt.
Further, for this lack of success, Trump International garnered a total of $609,607 in management fees between 2008 and 2012. (This figure is likely the source of Lainie Green’s reference to a “$600,000 paycheck” received by Donald Trump.)
His role in the bankruptcy of the company, which ended up costing Puerto Rican taxpayers $32.6 million, was significant but limited. That $32.6 million loss constituted 0.03 percent of the territory’s total $123 billion debt, which prompted the Puerto Rican government to file for bankruptcy relief in May 2017.
What's False. Puerto Rico had been hard hit by a recession, and the club had taken on substantial debt and was suffering annual losses for years before Trump's company intervened.
The continued operations of the Partnership are dependant [sic] upon the ability of the Club to attract customers and control operating expenses. Trump International Co. (Club Manager) has developed a plan to achieve and maintain positive operating cash flows sufficient to allow the Partnership to continue as a going concern. In particular, the Club Manager [Trump International] has developed programs to attract members and use the Club, while containing operating costs.
Green’s account of the episode got some facts right, but it also left out some important context necessary for any assessment of Trump’s responsibility for the bankruptcy of the golf course.
Holding Trump to be solely or primarily responsible for the bankruptcy of a business they didn’t own, that was already heavily in debt, and was losing several million dollars a year before Trump arrived on the scene would be something of an unfair standard.
In fact, it was not all that unusual. The club fit a formula Trump regularly uses: golf plus branding, with high-end residential mixed in. One recent example is the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai — an extravagant 18-hole course and 100 luxury villas.
Initially, the Trump-branded club did try to make a splash despite the tough economy. In 2008, it hosted the PGA Puerto Rico Open, and used the tournament to kick-start the condo sales.
From 2008 to 2012, it lost between $5.8 million and $7.2 million annually. In 2012 it had just 63 members, and only four had bought condo units. Mainland players weren't flocking to Coco Beach, and revenues from the Puerto Rico Open were steadily declining.
The magazine quoted Eric Trump as saying, "The PGA tournament served as the ideal platform to debut this one-of-a-kind project to such an important audience."
Once in a Bloomberg interview, Trump's son Eric Trump emphasized that the family had never had ownership stake in the property. "We have zero financial investment in this course," he said. "This is a separate owner. We purely manage the golf course."
A few of Trump's golf courses have earned stern rebukes from environmental groups due to the damage their construction has caused or could cause to surrounding ecosystems. For example, the Guardian reported in 2018 that the golf resort in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was guilty of partially destroying a fragile dune system composed of sands and plant life so unique that the area had previously been recognized as a site of special scientific interest by the Scottish Natural Heritage. Over in the United States, ABC says a Trump National Golf Course in Virginia was cited for cutting down trees in a protected area that was vulnerable to flooding, less than a decade after previously getting in trouble for chopping down another 400 trees. The justification? They wanted to make a clearer view for guests.
Donald Trump is an avid golf fan, and he cares tremendously about his golf courses, but the one that has (in the past) held a special importance in his life has been the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
CNN reports that Trump currently owns 17 golf courses, to be exact, and you can find them pretty much anywhere golf is popular: not only up and down the East Coast United States, from Florida to New York, but also in countries like Scotland, the UAE, and Ireland.
As Mother Jones explains, Trump's two Scottish golf courses cost the now-president $200 million to build, and in 2017 lost a combined total of about $6.2 million. This is a long shot from Trump's original pitch, back in 2008, where he claimed that the Aberdeen resort would be a huge success and would create 6,000 new jobs: In reality, the current number of employees is a not-so-amazing 84. Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. currently operate his golf properties, and while Eric has stated that the business is "spectacular," according to CBS — and certain properties, such as the Doral in Miami, have certainly done quite well — the family is notoriously cagey when it comes to giving details. From the outside, the picture doesn't look so great.
Year after year, according to Forbes, Eric Trump has borrowed his father's Westchester, New York, golf club for the Eric Trump Foundation Golf Invitational: a ritzy charity event where million of dollars are donated to St. Jude's hospital to benefit kids with cancer. As the younger Trump tells it, the greatest advantage to his event is that since it's his father's golf course, he gets to rent it out for free so all the money goes toward helping children with cancer with little upfront cost.
In 2012, Donald Trump purchased the Ritz-Carlton golf course in Jupiter, Florida, according to NBC, and for whatever reason, a group of previous members decided to ship out. Under the former rules of the agreement, these members were permitted to continue playing golf on the course until their replacements were found: like it or not, that's the contract they signed. When Trump caught wind of this, though, he wrote a letter to the members of the club saying that, as the new owner, he wanted them gone ASAP and these former rules no longer applied. According to USA Today, Trump also refused to give the former members their refundable deposits, some of which were as high as $210,000.
Trump ended up settling with Greenberg, agreeing to donate $158,000 to Greenberg's charitable foundation, according to Vox. The prize money didn't come directly from Trump himself, though. Rather, the check was written from Trump's "charity" organization, the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which has a pretty checkered record of charitable activities.
The Trump Organization ’s financial filings early this year reported a $4.6 million annual loss at the Scottish courses, which boosted the total red ink for the operations over eight years to an eye-popping $75 million. Trump hasn’t paid a penny in tax on the properties. In fact, the courses collected $800,000 in taxpayer subsidies during the COVID-19 pandemic to protect jobs, then cut workers, union officials complained.
The circular flow of money in the Trump companies provides an opportunity for money laundering, The New Yorker business writer Adam Davidson has suggested. He called the resorts “ money disappearing ” operations.
But late last year officials announced that the dunes had lost their status as a protected environmental site because they had been partially destroyed.
The drastic change was already vividly apparent in overhead photos of the Foveran Links dunes in 2019 (see clip above).
The dunes “will be there forever,” Trump vowed in 2008 to quell concerns about his new course. “This will be environmentally better after [the course] is built than it is before.”
Seven of the current Trump Golf-owned/managed properties are open to the public for tee times and eight of the clubs are private.
Overview of Trump Nationa Golf Club, Charlotte. (The Trump Organization)
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.