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Former US President Donald Trump, Republican candidate in the November 5 elections, will open a third golf course in Scotland in 2025, despite opposition from some residents, the politician’s tourist complex in the area announced on Monday.
The new golf course would be Trump’s second in Balmedie, in the Aberdeenshire region, and will be called MacLeod, the maiden name of his mother, Mary, who died in 2000 and who was born in 1912 on the Isle of Lewis, in the northwest Scotland, Trump International reported.
Donald Trump and his son Eric visited the Balmedie complex, in eastern Scotland, last year to follow the progress of the project for the second golf course in that region, after the inauguration of the first in 2012 in the area.
The authorization of this second golf course by local authorities, at the end of 2019, received strong criticism from neighbors.
A statement on the complex’s website informs that the first customers of this second golf course in the area will arrive in the middle of next year.
In the text, the group praises the “environmentally friendly” constructions, in a place that combines sand dunes and wetlands on the shores of the North Sea.
After the approval of the project for this second golf course in that area of Aberdeenshire, some residents interviewed by AFP denounced that it would destroy the landscape, while others defended that it could be good for tourism in the region.
Trump owns a third golf course in the town of Turnberry, west of Scotland, built in 1906 and purchased by the American billionaire in 2014.
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