This will not involve the trappings of state, save for ensuring safe passage, since the President of the United States is eyeing a visit to Menie in Aberdeenshire to cut the ribbon on the latest course in his golfing portfolio.
The jewel in the Trump crown last hosted the Open in 2009 when Stewart Cink ruined Tom Watson’s fairytale in a play-off to win his only major.
The US President is expected to arrive at his Scottish golf resort later this month (Photo: Getty)
A total of 120,000 attended in 2009, a figure which falls someway short of the 240,000 demanded of Muirfield by the R&A should that venerable old club push for its own return to the rota after an absence that currently stands at 12 years.
Turnberry’s position is further hampered by Trump’s volatile political profile, which crossed one of many red lines in 2021 during the storming of the Capitol building in Washington, in which his involvement was alleged.
Slumbers has since left his post to be replaced by Mark Dabon, who has declared his enthusiastic support for Turnberry, which has undergone a significant redesign under the Trump regime, returning it to its former eminence among links courses.
Trump has been banging the drum since the renovations of the historic Ailsa Course and hotel were completed earlier this year, declaring with absolute certainty that “everybody wants to see the Open back at Turnberry”.
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Turnberry’s clubhouse was daubed red in March by demonstrators who also painted “Palestine is not for sale” on one of the greens following Trump’s wild pledge to turn Gaza into a Mediterranean tourist attraction under American control, requiring the forcible relocation of two million Palestinian people.
Turnberry, one of 18 courses in Trump’s global portfolio, has been in his possession since 2014.
As well as Starmer, Trump has A-list support among the golfing community, including Colin Montgomerie, who declared: “Turnberry needs to happen.
“To host the greatest championship in golf is a must somewhere down the line.”
But where there’s a will, and a Monty, there’s a way. Expect the campaign to be turbo-Trumped shortly.
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