Meanwhile, the final piece in the Trump Turnberry jigsaw will be in place later this year, with the remodelled Kintyre and Arran nine-hole courses amalgamated into one 18-hole, Par-72 layout, to be named King Robert the Bruce, in honour of the 13th century Scottish King, who was born in Turnberry Castle, where the ruins still sit close to the lighthouse.
Also designed by Martin Ebert, this will be an ideal course for the recreational golfer, with breath-taking vistas from the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th offering spectacular views of the castle ruins and the lighthouse, the craggy shoreline coastline providing a tremendous visual feature and sporting challenge, with the approach shot to the 9th genuinely awe-inspiring with its green perched high above the waves crashing onto a rocky outcrop.
Almost 200-miles north east of Trump Turnberry, on the opposite coast of Scotland lies Donald J Trump’s Trump International Golf Links, which, with suitable bombast if not a great deal of evidence to back it up, the US President describes as, “The greatest golf course in the world.”
Opened in controversial circumstances following a lengthy planning process and environmental concerns in 2012, in fairness to arguably the most powerful man in the world, his US$150m creation is good, very good, the 7,428-yard Par-72 course near Aberdeen was designed by another renowned master of his trade, Dr. Martin Hawtree.
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