The Donald To Implement R&A Design Changes At Turnberry?

If you'd told me a year ago that Donald Trump would be looking to carry out design changes to Turnberry that were envisioned by the R&A well…I'm pretty sure the April Fool's card was in play.

But as Martin Dempster details, The Donald has visited his purchase at Turnberry and wants to make the course more dramatic. He says he would be merely implementing "tweaks" outlined by the world's busiest golf architecture firm, the R&A.

“There are things at Turnberry that the R&A have said for almost 30 years that they would love to do and that is moving the ninth, tenth and 11th holes right on to the rocks,” claimed Trump. “They have thought about that concept for maybe 35 years but nobody has got round to doing it. I would never do anything without the R&A’s blessing but we will certainly look at that. They are spectacular holes but they could be even more spectacular.”

“It’s tweaking,” he added, though some might think such a project is considerably more than that. “There’s a difference between building a new course [as he’s done with Trump International Golf Links at Menie Estate] and tweaking a great course.”