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Donald Trump team raises the likelihood of Turnor Golf Resort in the United States of Scotland return as a place for mountain championship at Sir Keir Starmer in the White House this week.
R & A, the administrative body running in the open, the oldest golf championship in the world, said in 2021 that it does not host the tournament on the trompberry restructure due to January 6th attacks at Capitol Hill that year.
As new today, outgoing r & a boss martin slumbers say this position does not change, say she doesn’t like “media noise” the body now has a new head, mark darbon.
The US team in the US raises the R & A principle this week with the UK delegation when Starmer is made his first visit In Washington as Prime Minister of dealing with trade, European security and the conflict of Ukraine, according to a person close to talks.
White House and Downing Street do not respond to requests for commentary.
R & A has 10 roster courses for the championship, with a turnberry attached since the 1970s, despite the approval of the prize in 1921, 1986, 1994 and 2009.
A UK minister said the open was not held in turnberry for many years due to rational reasons instead of political political. He claims that the place required “ten, or hundreds, millions of thousand investments” to improve access to public transport and the road as well as hotel facilities.
Trump is open about what he wants for the place to play the hosting, which is declared by 2022 “the open wants to return”.
“We are fortunate to have a pool of ten fantastic courses to choose from the open, adding that venues had to” meet the huge logistical requirements of staging a major sporting event and help us to grow a golf around the world “.
“We will keep choosing our places on that basis,” R & An said.
Golf experts say attending open tournaments has risen because the event of turnberry in 2009, attracting 123,000 people.
On the contrary, last year 258,174 viewers attended a royal throne, several miles north of withdrawal (Hoylake) in 2023, and 290,000 came to St Andress in 2022.
Darbon, the principal executive of R & A on Friday Friday: “We have questions we need to move in front of logistics and commercial.”
“When we were in 2009, we had more than 100,000 for the week. We operate comfortably more than double in most of our areas today. So it’s just as simple as just as we say ‘ There is a chunk of work needed to investigate. “
Places for open selected up to 2027. A location for 2028 occasions, which is the last year before Trump’s term of January 2029, was not selected.
Starmmer’s wrinkles in Washington included handing a fixed letter from King Charles inviting him to an “unknown” visit to the second state in the UK second state. In the letter, Charles suggested the Balmoral or Dumfries House meeting, which is the same distance from Trump Golf courses.
The open was first held in 1860 with Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer among the golfers who lifted the winner’s winner.
Nic Oldham, the general manager of the turnberry, writes the public statement in July last year urges R & A to allow the host area of 2027 activities. However, in January, R & A confirms that St Andrews will host that year.
In the 2022 Turnberry of Trump makes a pre-taxable profit of £ 571,000, its useful in 10 years. Accounts for SLC Turnberry The following year shows that it quits the red with losses of £ 1.69mmm.
Trump International Scotland, which runs turnberry, refuses to comment.
Simeon Kerr reporting further