{"id":19699,"date":"2025-07-18T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19699\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:30:03","slug":"trumps-turnberry-worthy-of-hosting-the-open-dechambeau-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/19699\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Turnberry ‘worthy’ of hosting The Open, DeChambeau says"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 18, 2025, 12:55 PM ET<\/p>\n

Bryson DeChambeau<\/a> says he is all for the Turnberry course in Scotland — owned by President Donald Trump — hosting an Open Championship for the first time since 2009.<\/p>\n

“I look at it as a golf course,” DeChambeau said Friday after shooting a 7-under 65<\/a> in the second round of The Open at Royal Portrush. “It’s one of the best golf courses in the world, and I’d love for it to be a part of the rotation.<\/p>\n

“Albeit I haven’t played it, I’ve heard so many great things about it, and any time you get to play a special historical golf course like that, I think it’s worthy of it, for sure.”<\/p>\n

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Turnberry is on the R&A’s 10-venue Open rotation but isn’t playing an active role. It last hosted the major 16 years ago — before Trump bought the resort — when a then-59-year-old Tom Watson made bogey on the 72nd hole and wound up losing a playoff to Stewart Cink<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of this week’s Open, R&A CEO Mark Darbon said transportation and other issues had to be addressed before Turnberry could host the oldest major championship again. Darbon said the R&A met with Eric Trump and other leaders of Trump Golf a few months ago regarding the “big logistical challenges” facing Turnberry and that the talks had been constructive.<\/p>\n

Former R&A CEO Martin Slumbers had previously said Turnberry would not be used until the organization was comfortable the focus would be on the golf and not the owner.<\/p>\n

The next unannounced site for The Open is in 2028.<\/p>\n

DeChambeau said he believed Trump would make Turnberry a special Open venue.<\/p>\n

“He’d still probably respect the R&A and what they’re trying to accomplish,” DeChambeau said. “I can’t speak on his behalf, but what I can say is, knowing him, he’ll do his best of a job as he possibly can.”<\/p>\n

DeChambeau’s relationship with Trump is such that he joined him on stage at an election party in Florida in November before Trump won the presidency again. DeChambeau also played a round of golf with Trump and did some short-game practice on the South Lawn of the White House a few months ago.<\/p>\n

Around this time last year, DeChambeau and Trump attempted to break 50 off the forward tees at the president’s Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey using a scramble format.<\/p>\n

“Got like 15 million views [on YouTube] or something,” DeChambeau said. “It was fun.”<\/p>\n

Turnberry has hosted the Open Championship four times, first in 1977 with the famous “Duel in the Sun” when Watson beat Jack Nicklaus for his second of five Open titles.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 18, 2025, 12:55 PM ET Bryson DeChambeau says he is all for the Turnberry course in Scotland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-19699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699","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=19699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}