{"id":384769,"date":"2026-01-03T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T03:54:09","slug":"trump-enlists-jack-nicklaus-to-redesign-andrews-military-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/384769\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump enlists Jack Nicklaus to redesign Andrews military golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> has spent much of his two-week vacation in Florida golfing. But when he gets back to the White House, there\u2019s a military golf course that he\u2019s never played that he\u2019s eyeing for a major construction project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Long a favored getaway for presidents seeking a few hours\u2019 solace from the stress of running the free world, the Courses at Andrews \u2014 inside the secure confines of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, about 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the White House \u2014 are known as the \u201cpresident\u2019s golf course.\u201d Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Joe Biden have spent time there, and Barack Obama played it more frequently<\/a> than any president, roughly 110 times in eight years.<\/p>\n

\"TrumpPresident Barack Obama, from right, Vice President Joe Biden, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich walk on the first green during a round of golf at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., June 18, 2011. (AP Photo\/Charles Dharapak, File)AP<\/p>\n

Trump has always preferred the golf courses his family owns<\/a> \u2014 spending about one of every four days of his second term at one of them. But he\u2019s now enlisted golf champion Jack Nicklaus<\/a> as the architect to overhaul the Courses at Andrews.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s amazing that an individual has time to take a couple hours away from the world crises. And they\u2019re people like everybody else,\u201d said Michael Thomas, the former general manager of the course, who has golfed with many of the presidents visiting Andrews over the years.<\/p>\n

Andrews, better known as the home of Air Force One<\/a>, has two 18-hole courses and a 9-hole one. Its facilities have undergone renovations in the past, including in 2018, when Congress approved funding to replace aging presidential aircraft and to build a new hangar and support facilities. That project was close enough to the courses that they had to be altered then, too.<\/p>\n

Trump toured the base by helicopter<\/a> before Thanksgiving with Nicklaus, who has designed top courses the world over. The president called Andrews \u201ca great place, that\u2019s been destroyed over the years, through lack of maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other golfers, though, describe Andrews\u2019 grounds as in good shape, despite some dry patches. Online reviews praise the course\u2019s mature trees, tricky roughs, and ponds and streams that serve as water hazards. The courses are mostly flat, but afford views of the surrounding base.<\/p>\n

The Andrews improvements join a bevy of Trump construction projects, including demolishing the White House\u2019s East Wing<\/a> for a sprawling ballroom<\/a> now expected to cost $400 million<\/a>, redoing the bathroom attached to the Lincoln bedroom<\/a> and replacing the Rose Garden\u2019s lawn with a Mar-a-Lago-like patio area.<\/p>\n

Outside the White House, Trump has led building projects at the Kennedy Center and wants to erect a Paris-style arch<\/a> near the Lincoln Memorial, and has said he wants to rebuild Dulles International Airport<\/a> in northern Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. \u2014 President Donald Trump has spent much of his two-week vacation in Florida golfing.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[6234,427,99,6235],"class_list":{"0":"post-384769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bestof","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-topix"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384769","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=384769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}