Jul 16, 2017 · The prestigious women’s golf tournament at Trump’s course has galvanized protesters, including the women's advocacy group Ultrav iolet, due to …
Jul 12, 2017 · The USGA has faced pressure from women’s groups and three Democratic U.S. senators to move the event because of Trump’s comments about women and minorities, namely audio that surfaced during ...
May 25, 2017 · Eric Trump speaks to the media at the 2017 U.S. Women's Open preview day at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 16: U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump leave the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf …
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| Established | 1552 (469 years ago) |
| Type | Public |
| Owned by | Fife Council |
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 16: U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump leave the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf Club on July 16, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 14: U.S President Donald Trump arrives at the second round of the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf Course on July 14, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 14: U.S President Donald Trump waves to the crowd after arriving at the second round of the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf Course on July 14, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 14: U.S President Donald Trump arrives at the second round of the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf Course on July 14, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 14: U.S President Donald Trump waves to the crowd after arriving at the second round of the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf Course on July 14, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 14: U.S President Donald Trump waves to the crowd after arriving at the second round of the U.S. Women's Open Championship at Trump National Golf Course on July 14, 2017 in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Matt Sullivan/Getty Images)
BEDMINSTER, NJ - JULY 14: U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledges the patrons in the clubhouse as he leaves the U.S. Women's Open round two on July 14, 2017 at Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
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.
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.
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.
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 oldest major championship on the LPGA Tour, the U.S. Women’s Open was hosted by Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster in 2017.
Golf’s oldest, most prestigious senior major, the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship, took place at Trump National Washington, D.C. in 2017. Rave reviews greeted the Championship course, one of the club’s two stellar 18-hole layouts, notably from the tournament winner, Bernhard Langer.
The most prestigious event—one of professional golf’s four major championships—will be contested at Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster in May 2022. Trump National Bedminster’s world-class facilities and supremely testing championship courses make for an ideal PGA Championship venue.