Donald Trump reveals huge new plans for Aberdeenshire golf course
The golf courses will combine to create 'The Greatest 36 Holes in Golf' on the Aberdeenshire coast
TOP TRUMP Donald Trump reveals huge new plans for Aberdeenshire golf course
DONALD Trump has unveiled huge new plans for his Aberdeenshire golf course.
The site is currently undergoing an expansion, with a new 18-hole course set to open later this summer.
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Donald Trump has revealed new plans for his Aberdeenshire golf course
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Trump and his Scots mum Mary Anne MacLeod
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Known officially as the Old and the New, the golf courses will combine to create 'The Greatest 36 Holes in Golf' on the Aberdeenshire coast.
And as part of the upgrades, the 47th US President is creating a memorial garden to his late mum Mary Anne MacLeod at the golf resort.
The main feature of the garden will be a tribute carved in stone, specially imported from her birthplace and original home, the Isle of Lewis.
Trump's mum was born and brought up in the fishing town of Tong on the Hebridean island of Lewis but emigrated to New York to live a very different life.
She was one of tens of thousands of Scots who travelled to the US and Canada in the early years of the last century, looking to escape economic hardship at home.
She first left Lewis for New York in 1930, at the age of 18, to seek work as a domestic servant.
Six years later, she was married to successful property developer Frederick Trump, the son of German migrants and one of the most eligible men in New York.
The fourth of their five children, Donald John, as he is referred to on the islands, is now US president for the second time.
Mary Anne died in 2000 aged 88 and is buried in New York.
Sarah Malone, executive vice president of Trump International, said: 'With the New course opening now fast approaching, we are delighted to share the final layout of this extraordinary links and the completion of The Greatest 36 Holes.
Watch the supercringey moment Donald Trump gets a rocking bagpipe welcome to his first Scots golf course
'It has been a phenomenal journey to create two truly exceptional world-class championship golf courses, across this magnificent stretch of North Sea coastline.
'The Trump family has a deep affection for Scotland – not only as the home of golf – but as the ancestral home of President Trump's beloved mother, Mary Anne MacLeod.'
We told previously how a man who claims a farmer's hedge has ruined his views of Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course has taken his fight to the government.
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