Trump International Scotland will reportedly host a DP World Tour event for the first time in August, 13 years after the Aberdeenshire venue opened.
Tom Kershaw of The Times reports that a deal has been agreed to bring a tournament to the course, which is owned by US President Donald Trump, with the event estimated to have a purse of around $2.25m ($3.1m).
The event is expected to be held between August 7th and 10th,the same week as the first of the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup Playoffs, the FedEx St. Jude Championship, and the penultimate regular event of the LIV Golf season, at Bolingbrook in Chicago.
While that will inevitably mean many of the world’s biggest stars will be otherwise occupied that week, those who do appear will find a top-class links course. The layout, which ranks 15th in Golf Monthly’s top 100 courses in the UK and Ireland for 2025/26, is visually stunning with majestic dunes and breathtaking views of the coast.
In 2023, Trump's son Eric told Golf Monthly’s Fergus Bisset he was confident the venue would one day host some of the biggest in the world. He said: “I can tell you this property will host the biggest tournaments in golf. There’s no question about it. The history of tournaments that will be held at this property is going to be long and very, very distinguished. Go down the checklist of things you need for a Major, it has every one of them on steroids.”
While the reported DP World Tour event will likely not be regarded as the biggest event that week, the apparent green light for the course to host the tournament, which will be in place of the cancelled D+D Real Czech Masters, appears significant.
Trump National Bedminster had been scheduled to host the 2022 PGA Championship, but the riots at the US Capitol building in Washington DC on January 6, 2021, which came near the end of Trump’s first term as President, prompted the PGA of America into a rethink and the event was switched to Southern Hills.
Since that edition of the Major, some of Trump’s courses, including Bedminster, have hosted LIV Golf events. However, they have been absent from the PGA Tour schedule, and that has also been true of the DP World Tour, along with The Open, with four-time venue Trump Turnberry last hosting the Major in 2009.
The reported addition of Trump International Scotland to the DP World Tour schedule will also likely offer a welcome financial boost, with The Times reporting that the venue, which has also hosted the Staysure Seniors PGA Championship, recorded losses for the 11th successive year last October.
A second layout at Trump International Scotland, the MacLeod course, is due to open in the summer. In 2023, Trump said of the new course: "We will build a course that will be fit to host many great championships in the future along with our championship links.”
