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Henrik Stenson tees off on the 10th hole with the Turnberry Lighthouse in the background, during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Turnberry Golf Course, on July 11, 2009. AP<\/p>\nPORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 President Donald Trump won\u2019t be getting to host a British Open at his Turnberry resort anytime soon, according to the R&A, which governs the world\u2019s oldest major championship.<\/p>\n
Mark Darbon, the new chief executive of the R&A, said Wednesday that the reason Turnberry is on the outside looking in is not political, but more about transportation issues accessing the golf course located on the west coast of Scotland.<\/p>\n
Turnberry has hosted the Open Championship four times, the first being 1977, the famous \u201cDuel in the Sun\u2019\u2019 when Tom Watson defeated Jack Nicklaus, and the last being in 2009, when Watson lost in a playoff to Stewart Cink.<\/p>\n
Darbon, who took over at the R&A this year from Martin Slumbers, said Turnberry had not been taken off the list of potential Open sites, but that transportation and other issues need to be addressed before it can become an option again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve been extremely clear on our position in respect of Turnberry,\u2019\u2019 Darbon said. \u201cWe love the golf course, but we\u2019ve got some big logistical challenges there. You see the scale of their setup here, and we\u2019ve got some work to do on the road, rail and accommodation infrastructure around Turnberry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Darbon revealed that the R&A met with Eric Trump and other leaders of Trump Golf a few months ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think they understand clearly where we\u2019re coming from,\u2019\u2019 Darbon said. \u201cWe talked through some of the challenges that we have, so we\u2019ve got a good dialogue with them.<\/p>\n
Turnberry falling out of the rotation after 2009 was perceived by many to be political after Trump bought the course in 2014.<\/p>\n
Henrik Stenson tees off on the 10th hole with the Turnberry Lighthouse in the background, during a practice round for the British Open Golf Championship at Turnberry Golf Course, on July 11, 2009. AP<\/p>\n
Slumbers previously said the R&A would not be going to Turnberry until it was comfortable the focus would be on the golf and not the owner. <\/p>\n
Trump, a golf fanatic who owns numerous golf courses, has always wanted to host a major championship yet never has.<\/p>\n
There has been recent speculation that Trump might ask the British government to intercede in getting the Open back to Turnberry.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have an ongoing dialogue with the U.K. government, given that we\u2019re a major event that creates significant value into the U.K. economy,\u201d Darbon said. \u201cWe\u2019ve spoken to them specifically about Turnberry, and I think they\u2019ve made it clear that the decision around where we take our championship rests with us,\u201d Darbon said.<\/p>\n
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Donald Trump is welcomed as he arrives at his Turnberry golf course, in Turnberry, Scotland on June 24, 2016. Reuters<\/p>\n
\u201cI would find it difficult to predict whether there will be any discussion on the Open if the president is making a visit here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland \u2014 President Donald Trump won\u2019t be getting to host a British Open at his Turnberry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[7697,12,427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-15791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-british-open","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}