Turnberry (golf course)
Turnberry Hotel in November 2005
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 Location in Scotland
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| Coordinates | 55°18′58″N 4°49′59″W / 55.316°N 4.833°WCoordinates: 55°18′58″N 4°49′59″W / 55.316°N 4.833°W |
| Location | South Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Established | 1906, 111 years ago |
| Type | Private |
| Owned by | The Trump Organization |
| Total holes | 45 |
| Tournaments hosted |
The Open Championship (4) Senior Open Champ. (7) Women's British Open (1) Walker Cup (1) |
| Website | turnberryresort.co.uk |
| Ailsa Course | |
| Designed by | Willie Fernie, redesigned by Mackenzie Ross 1949–51 |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 7,204 yards (6,587 m) |
| Kintyre Course | |
| Designed by | Donald Steel |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6,921 yards (6,329 m) |
| Arran Course | |
| Par | 31 |
The Trump Turnberry is a golf resort on the coast of the outer Firth of Clyde in southwestern Scotland owned by United States President Donald Trump. Located in South Ayrshire on the rugged coast, it comprises three links golf courses, a golf academy, a five-star James Miller-designed hotel from 1906, along with lodge and cottage accommodations. The prominent rock island Ailsa Craig is readily visible to the southwest.
In 1902, golf course designer Willie Fernie was commissioned by the Marquess of Ailsa to lay out a championship course. In 1906, a hotel was built, and the course began to take its modern structure.
The property was used as an airbase during the First World War, and a landing strip built for this purpose still exists, now disused. During this period, the Royal Flying Corps trained pilots in the arts of aerial gunnery and combat, and the Turnberry Hotel was used as a hospital for the wounded. After the war, courses 1 and 2 were rebuilt and renamed "Ailsa" and "Arran". A memorial to honour lost airmen was erected on the hill overlooking the 12th green of Ailsa and still remains.
The cycle was repeated for World War II. The hotel was commissioned as a hospital, and the golf courses were seconded for air training for the Royal Air Force (RAF); it is thought that as many as 200 died at the base.
Designer Mackenzie Ross is credited with restoring the courses to their high quality, and the Ailsa course was re-opened in 1951, a seaside links with stunning views of Ailsa Craig and the Isle of Arran.
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