{"id":48613,"date":"2026-08-10T16:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/48613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:51:13","slug":"mlb-stars-team-bonding-golf-outing-at-hyped-new-course-turns-into-trade-deadline-trainwreck-golf-news-and-tour-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/48613\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB star\u2019s team-bonding golf outing at hyped new course turns into trade-deadline trainwreck | Golf News and Tour Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Tiger Woods-designed Trout National<\/a>\u00a0is a private course that only the luckiest golfers have had a chance to see. It\u2019s known for its $100 million budget, as well as The Dugout, an amenity station built into the ground behind the 14th and 16th teeing areas, so you can watch tee shots from ground level. It\u2019s also now home to one of the most brutal trade-deadline massacres in recent sports history.<\/p>\n

Last Monday, Mike Trout took his Los Angeles Angels teammates to his brand-new course in Vineland, N.J., for a bit of team-bonding three-quarters of the way through the season. Unfortunately, the squad\u2019s off day fell on the MLB trade deadline, and interim general manager John Mozeliak was in the mood to make some deals.<\/p>\n

According to Ken Rosenthal at The Athletic<\/a>, three of the 12 players there (reliever Brent Suter, outfielder Jo Adell and reliever Ryan Zeferjahn) were traded mid-outing. And just for good measure, reliever Kirby Yates found out he was sent to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the car after leaving the course. That\u2019s a full foursome ending up on different teams by day\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

This is what Trout National looks like, by the way, if you’re interested … or if you’re one of the traded Angels, who had other things on their mind mid-round.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seemed like every four or five holes someone was getting the call,\u201d said a seemingly shell-shocked Trout. And Yates added that, \u201cIt was pretty wild watching everybody go. None of us have ever seen that many guys get traded at once. After somebody went, we just kept saying, \u2018All right, who\u2019s next?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

There was one more Angel, right-hander Jos\u00e9 Soriano, traded that day, but he doesn\u2019t play golf. He was back at the team\u2019s hotel instead.<\/p>\n

Suter, the first player to get traded on the course and an 11-year veteran, got a call on the practice putting green right before teeing off. His first question after the call was, \u201cCan I finish the round? Can I golf?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just instantly started hugging everybody,\u201d he said. \u201cLuckily, I was able to play the round and enjoy the last couple hours with the guys before I caught the last flight out of Philly to Atlanta.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after, Adell found out his fate on the 11th hole: \u201cAt least I got to play half the course, though. That\u2019s the positive.\u201d And then Zeferjahn was dealt between Nos. 12 and 13 during a rain delay.<\/p>\n

GM Mozeliak wasn\u2019t aware that a good portion of his team was at Trout National, but probably couldn\u2019t have made it, even if he was in town. \u201cI\u2019m bummed I wasn\u2019t invited,\u201d he said. \u201cI was a little tied up that morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess if you\u2019re going to get news like that, you might as well be having fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Tiger Woods-designed Trout National\u00a0is a private course that only the luckiest golfers have had a chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,2939,818,18953,18865,6918,5804,18951,18956,18955,82,18954,1142,18950,18952],"class_list":["post-48613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-golf","tag-golf-courses","tag-golf-money","tag-ken-rosenthal","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-mike-trout","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-stars-team-bonding-golf-outing-at-hyped-new-course-turns-into-trade-deadline-trainwreck","tag-mlb-stars-team-bonding-golf-outing-turns-into-barbaric-trade-deadline-trainwreck","tag-mlb-trade-deadline","tag-story","tag-the-athletic","tag-tiger-woods","tag-trade-deadline","tag-trout-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}