Superman’s Scottish Links

2025 is off to a flying start for ‘Superman’ Donald Trump. Not only is he going to ‘save the planet’, he’s opening a new golf course near Aberdeen, Scotland. Cheek by jowl to the much-praised Trump International Golf Links which opened in 2012, the new ‘MacLeod Course’, named for his Scottish Hebridean mother will open this summer.

Like his cabinet, Trump assembled one of the best course-building teams in the business with Martin Hawtree, Christian Lundin and Christine Fraser on the design side and a group of the world’s finest engineers, environmentalists, agronomists and shapers on construction. His second son, Eric oversaw the project much as he did with the original course.

Occupying more varied terrain to the south and west of the original links, the McLeod course combines sandy dunesland, heather-clad heathlands and wide stretches of wetlands. There’s claim that the course will offer the ‘world’s largest, natural bunker’ and ancient, natural burns have been preserved. The experience gained during the construction of the existing course gave the team a head start in terms of sustainability.

The new course is scheduled to open for play in July and in typical Trump fashion, the team is referring to the Trump International Golf Links as ‘the greatest 36 holes in golf’.