{"id":62714,"date":"2025-08-12T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62714\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:45:16","slug":"forrest-wins-at-trump-international-and-gets-congratulatory-call-from-the-us-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62714\/","title":{"rendered":"Forrest wins at Trump International and gets congratulatory call from the US president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABERDEEN, Scotland (AP) \u2014 Grant Forrest won his second European Tour title Sunday in the Nexo Championship at Trump International Golf Links and got more than just a trophy. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DPWorldTour\/status\/1954593585615241414\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Forrest received a video call from the course owner, President Donald Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Forrest received a video call from the course owner, President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump called from his course northwest of Washington, where he was preparing to play.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have very good players, but they&#8217;re not like you, Grant,\u201d Trump said on the call, which the European tour posted on its social media site. \u201cWe all watched you play. What a round of golf. That course is big, it&#8217;s strong and tough. Your swing is great. And it&#8217;s a great honor you won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forrest, a 32-year-old from Scotland, closed with an ever-par 72 for a four-shot victory over Joe Dean. His other European tour title was four years ago, also in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second straight week Trump&#8217;s course along the coast of Aberdeen held a tournament, coming after the Senior PGA Championship on the European Legends Tour, won by Bo Van Pelt of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP golf: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/golf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABERDEEN, Scotland (AP) \u2014 Grant Forrest won his second European Tour title Sunday in the Nexo Championship at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[40501,49,48,622,40500,862,16378,82,16379],"class_list":["post-62714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-aberdeen","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-grant-forrest","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-scotland","tag-sports","tag-trump-international-golf-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}