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<\/p>\nAccording to Joe Russell, the Managing Director of Trump International Hotel and Golf Links, the US leader is \u201cearmarked\u201d to attend the event, which is scheduled for the week of September 7-13.<\/p>\n
Mr Russell was speaking at a public meeting held in Doonbeg\u2019s Community Hall on Monday, where DP World Tour and Doonbeg resort representatives outlined plans for the $6 million championship.<\/p>\n
The Clare Champion reported that Mr Russell was bullish about President Trump being at his west Clare resort at some stage during the week of the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is likely at the moment, President Trump will attend,\u201d Mr Russell told the meeting. \u201cIt\u2019s not confirmed. Eric (Trump, executive vice president of the Trump organisation) will attend, so there will be a security presence leading up to the Open, but the size and scale of that will really depend on which Trump is coming, but at the moment the President is earmarked to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
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US president Donald Trump at Doonbeg in Co Clare<\/p>\n
Today’s News in 90 Seconds, Friday, February 20 <\/p>\n
The DP World Tour\u2019s Chris Upson, a Senior Championship Manager at the DP World Tour, said that a visit by President Trump would affect the security cordon in place.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of local access, I think it\u2019s important to say that we need to understand the impact of potential VIPs \u2013 which member of the Trump family will visit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are working with the local authorities in terms of what a cordon might look like.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two park-and-ride sites, north and south of Doonbeg, are being studied by the DP World Tour, while there is also the possibility of shuttle bus services from towns such as Kilrush, Kilkee and Miltown Malbay, which will be hosting many visitors.<\/p>\n
Considerable work has been carried out on the links in recent months, and the DP World Tour\u2019s Paul Gillmon, Championship Director for the Amgen Irish Open, has high hopes for a successful week.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to give this event, this region, county and community of Doonbeg an incredible week with as little disruption as possible,\u201d he said, adding that the tour wants to do its best for the local community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done two economic impact studies over the last two years,\u201d he said. \u201cWe went to Royal County Down in Newcastle and The K Club last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe average economic impact over those two years is \u20ac16m, so what that means is that we are bringing and generating revenue to the local economy to the tune of \u20ac16m.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over 70,000 fans are expected to travel to West Clare to see the likes of Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Tom McKibbin, Padraig Harrington and Seamus Power.<\/p>\n
Jon Rahm, who last competed in the Irish Open in 2019 when he won his second title at Lahinch, has indicated he\u2019s keen to return.<\/p>\n
Given the close relationship between the Trump organisation and LIV Golf, which will stage two events at Trump courses this year, there is speculation that Rahm could be joined by several LIV Golf stars.<\/p>\n
The presence of Bryson DeChambeau, who has a good relationship with President Trump, would be a massive boost to the tournament, which is likely to be a qualifying event for the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor in Co Limerick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Joe Russell, the Managing Director of Trump International Hotel and Golf Links, the US leader is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[969,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-308332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-donald-trump","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}