Donald Trump, president, magnate and owner of 19 golf courses

International Writing.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, inaugurated this Tuesday a new golf course of his company in Aberdeenshire county, in the northwest of Scotland, which will join another 18-hole course launched thirteen years ago to, thus, create an “unmatched” experience of 36 courses laid out between natural dunes, armlets and wetlands.

With this new course, designed by a team led by Eric Trump, son of the magnate and executive vice president of the Trump Organization, there are now three courses that the Trump Golf company has spread across Scottish lands.

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"From Scotland to Palm Beach, from Los Angeles to Dubai": This is how Donald Trump's golfing empire is presented on its website, and it has been in the news in recent days due to the visit of the American president to his complexes in Scotland and Ireland to play his favorite sport between meetings with European leaders. And the fact is that on this private trip the Republican killed two birds with one stone, or, using golfing jargon, made a hole in one: not only did he have time to tour his grounds and practice his 'swing', but he met with the First Minister of Scotland, John Swinney, or with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, with whom he agreed on a tariff pact as welcome as it was criticized.

It all started in West Palm Beach

Trump Golf has been expanding for more than a quarter of a century not only across the United States and the United Kingdom, but also in other latitudes such as Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, and Ireland. The journey began in 1999 with the opening of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida (USA), the complex where, 25 years later, in September 2024, the then-former US president suffered an assassination attempt in the middle of the campaign for the elections that he ended up winning a month later against Democrat Kamala Harris. The West Palm Beach course, designed by Jim Fazio, was followed by the opening, between 2002 and 2010, of seven other complexes in New York, New Jersey, California, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, until, in 2011, Trump Golf expanded beyond the United States and reached Aberdeen, Scotland. Doonbeg (Ireland), Turnberry (Scotland) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates) join Donald Trump's golfing map in the 2010s, years in which the magnate's franchise continues to bring turf and holes to North Carolina and Florida. The most recent opening of Trump Golf has taken place in Lido (Indonesia), which will soon arrive in Bali (Indonesia), Muscat (Oman) and Simaisma (Qatar).