Darbon has acknowledged that UK government officials have also spoken with the R&A about the possibility of Turnberry hosting The Open.<\/p>\n
President Trump hosted the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the course during a visit to Scotland – the country where his mother was born – earlier this week, and called for the championship to return, calling it “the best resort in the world”.<\/p>\n
Asked about the issue at Monday’s joint press conference, Starmer said: “The decision on The Open is not a decision for me.”<\/p>\n
Eric Trump insisted he did not know whether his father had spoken directly to the Prime Minister about it, but claimed: “Turnberry will win the Open Championship at the right time, based on the merits of it being the greatest golf course on earth, that’s what’s going to win the day.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t specifically talk about the championship, but I think he too realises the importance of that asset to the west coast of Scotland and, to frankly, the nation’s economy.”<\/p>\n
He firmly rejected suggestions of the Open’s potential return to Turnberry being part of any horse-trading at a time of trade talks between the US and UK.<\/p>\n
“That question isn’t serious,” he said. “You’re not doing a deal with the host country. You’re doing a deal with the R&A.<\/p>\n
“I can tell you my father puts the interest of America above any golf course.”<\/p>\n
Trump was speaking after he accompanied his father to the opening of a new 18-hole course at the Aberdeenshire resort the family also owns near Balmedie. <\/p>\n
The Scottish government has announced that \u00a3180,000 of public money is being spent to help bring the DP World Tour’s Nexo Championship to the venue next month.<\/p>\n
“It’s probably the last links course that will ever be built in the UK, and I truly think we have the best 36 holes anywhere in the world,” Eric Trump said.<\/p>\n
The resort is yet to make a profit, but he added: “Here’s the good news. We don’t give a damn, right. This is our Mona Lisa. If we spent $100m and never got a penny back, it doesn’t make any difference. We wanted to do something incredible.”<\/p>\n
The Trumps’ development of the course has also faced criticism from some local residents concerned about the impact on the environment. <\/p>\n
In response, Eric Trump said: “We’ve done a hell of a job and for anybody to say that the Trump Organisation hasn’t brought economic development to Scotland. I mean, it’s freaking laughable, and it wasn’t always easy to tell you the truth.<\/p>\n
“Frankly, if we weren’t as stubborn as we are, we probably would have thrown in the towel many times over.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darbon has acknowledged that UK government officials have also spoken with the R&A about the possibility of Turnberry…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":105116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-105115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114942876361873287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}