Whether you are looking for premier New Jersey golf, an exceptional wedding venue or an ideal family retreat, Trump Bedminster has it all.
5 Like Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster is expensive to join. 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).
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. "This is a unique property," Gallagher said. In 2005, Golf Magazine ranked it the No. 73 course in the U.S. And Golf Digest named it No. 84 in both 2005 and 2006.
In all, The Washington Post reported that the Secret Service paid to stay in Bedminster for more than 200 days when Trump was not even on the property. A similar trend took place at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Charging taxpayers premium prices for lodging at Trump properties is not new.
Trump bought the property from National Fairways, a Connecticut-based golf course developer that had acquired it from automaker DeLorean at a bankruptcy auction in early 2000.
The manor house at Lamington Farm may no longer be home to a celebrity, but who knows what buyers may be attracted to the building lots surrounding the golf course. "The mansion sites will be spectacular, overlooking the course," Trump said.
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.
DeLorean had sold the property at bankruptcy auction in 2000. A group of investors began work on the site, but eventually ran out of funds and sold the property to Trump for $35 million. Two years after he bought it, the real-estate developer opened the club in 2004.
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).
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.
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 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.
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.".
The move from Bedminster does not mark the first time the PGA has moved an event away from a course owned by Trump. The Trump National in Los Angeles was stripped of the 2015 Grand Slam of Golf due to controversial remarks about Mexican immigrants made by Trump.
His Aberdeen course, designed by Martin Hawtree, possesses views of towering dunes, vast valleys and the jagged coastline of the North Sea. While Turnberry has been home to four memorable Open Championships, including 1977’s Nicklaus vs. Watson ‘Duel in the Sun’, and its ocean holes are set next to an iconic lighthouse.
Trump, a keen player and follower of golf, owns no fewer than 17 golf courses across the world, including ones in Aberdeen and Turnberry. His Aberdeen course, designed by Martin Hawtree, possesses views of towering dunes, vast valleys and the jagged coastline of the North Sea.
His organisation, Trump Golf, owns a vast collection of golf courses across the world from right here in Scotland, to Ireland, America and Dubai.
In all, The Washington Post reported that the Secret Service paid to stay in Bedminster for more than 200 days when Trump was not even on the property. A similar trend took place at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
Trump's private club billed the Secret Service more than $21,800 to rent a cottage and other rooms while the club was supposed to be closed to guests. The documents offer no explanation of the charges.
For those who join the club, Trump National Bedminster provides major championship golf, superior service and award-winning facilities in an incomparable, exclusive setting.
When you host a wedding or special event at Trump National Golf Club, you will enjoy the perfect combination of exemplary hospitality and an elegant, tranquil setting.
Located only 40 minutes from Manhattan, experience all that this world-class private club has to offer for you and your family.