Trump Golf is adding another course to its portfolio with the opening of the MacLeod Course this summer at Trump International, Scotland. Named after his Scottish Hebridean mother, the course is cheek by jowl to the much-praised Trump International Golf Links, which opened in 2012 just north of Aberdeen.
Son Eric oversaw the project much as he did with the original course, assembling one of the best course-building teams in the business with Martin Hawtree, Christian Lundin, and Christine Fraser on the design team, and a group of the finest engineers, environmentalists, agronomists, and shapers on construction.
Occupying a more varied site to the south and west of the original links, the McLeod course plays over dunes land, heather-clad heathlands, and wide stretches of wetlands. There’s claim that the course will present the “world’s largest, natural bunker.” Experience gained in the construction of the existing course gave the team a head start in terms of sustainability and the preservation of ancient, natural burns.