{"id":43673,"date":"2025-07-28T22:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43673\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:39:08","slug":"new-armored-golf-force-one-debuts-during-trumps-scotland-golf-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/43673\/","title":{"rendered":"New armored ‘Golf Force One’ debuts during Trump’s Scotland golf outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Move over, Air Force One \u2014 a new armored vehicle outfitted for presidential protection is in town, this one specifically for golf outings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The vehicle specifically designed for ballistic protection, dubbed “Golf Force One,” seemingly made its public debut during a round of golf between President Donald Trump and his son, Eric, at the Trump golf course in Turnberry, Scotland<\/a>, over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House confirmed “Golf Force One” is “part of the presidential fleet of specialty vehicles,” but did not share any further details.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It comes 10 months after an assassination attempt on Trump<\/a> while he was playing golf at his Florida course.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the General Services Administration, a Polaris UTV can be outfitted by Chicago company Scaletta Armor with an “add-on armor kit to Polaris XP 1000 Ranger UTV with protection scalable to mission.” The kit costs around $190,000.<\/p>\n

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New armored vehicle deemed Golf Force One accompanies Trump on golf outing\u00a0 (Getty Images\u00a0)<\/p>\n

EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND, HOME OF TRUMP GOLF COURSE<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump was in Scotland for a meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the golf outing<\/a>, Trump was seen cruising around in a regular golf cart, with the armored vehicle following a fleet of carts carrying Secret Service agents.<\/p>\n

The president is known to enjoy driving his own cart, but the UTV was likely on hand in case of an emergency requiring additional protection in such a wide-open space.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the last Trump assassination attempt \u2014 on Sept. 15, 2024 at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida \u2014 a Secret Service agent conducting a sweep saw a man hiding in the brush along the fence line of the sixth hole.<\/p>\n

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Golf Force One in Scotland with Trump\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Trump driving a golf cart\u00a0 <\/p>\n

TRUMP SHOWS OFF GOLF SKILLS AT TURNBERRY RESORT DURING SCOTLAND VISIT, CITES GARY PLAYER’S PRIOR PRAISE<\/a><\/p>\n

“The agent observed the barrel of a rifle aimed directly at him,” a Justice Department press release suggested.\u00a0“As the agent began backing away, he saw the rifle barrel move, and the agent fired at [Ryan Wesley] Routh.”<\/p>\n

That came after last July when shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at the president during a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, killing an attendee behind Trump.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Iran posted a digitized video of a drone targeting Trump on a golf course in a “vengeance” strike over the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.<\/p>\n

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“Golf Force One” joins a fleet of armored vehicles that includes the Beast, the 10-ton mobile fortress equipped with walls eight inches thick and layered, five-inch windows of reinforced glass that can stop high-caliber rounds. It\u2019s capable of distributing tear gas, grenades, and pump-action shotguns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Move over, Air Force One \u2014 a new armored vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-43673","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\/43673","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=43673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}