Championship Course 3rd Hole
Armed with our drone pilot and social media team , we arrived to Balmedie in Aberdeen , which is renowned for its scenic coastline , featuring expansive sandy beaches , rolling dunes , and magnificent views of the North Sea , attracting visitors and nature enthusiasts alike .
One of the star attractions in this area is Trump International Golf Links , a premier golf resort that spans over 1,500 acres of spectacular Scottish landscape , featuring dramatic sand dunes , rugged coastline , and breathtaking sea views .
Set amidst the great dunes of Scotland , Trump International embraces mile after mile of spectacular Aberdeenshire coastline and guarantees the experience of a lifetime .
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CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF COURSE
The Championship Course , designed to challenge and delight golfers of all skill levels , offers a true links experience with undulating fairways , pot bunkers , and challenging greens . The golf course was designed by Dr Martin Hawtree whose father and grandfather before him designed and laid out many courses worldwide but are perhaps best known for the Open Championship course , Royal Birkdale . The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St . Andrews task Dr . Hawtree each year with the design modifications at all their Open Championship venues before each tournament . Dr . Hawtree ’ s fierce adherence to working with the natural environment has allowed him to create the most natural links golf courses on this site - Trump
International in the Northeast of Scotland . Talking about this project , he said : “ I was made aware of Mr . Trump ’ s ambitions to produce a world-class , 18-Hole links course , following the great tradition of Scottish links golf , capable of one day hosting a major golf championship . My inspection of the site left me in no doubt of its exceptional qualities of environment as well as potential for golf of a very high order and I very quickly came to share his vision and seize a rare opportunity to create a new links course of quite extraordinary power , beauty , challenge and interest .
The design of the golf course has involved an iterative process of studying the site in great detail , entering into a dialogue between the norms of classic and championship golf course layout on the one hand the physical , ecological , economic constraints of the site on the other ; working out ideas and schemes for the layout as hypotheses and then testing them against the site . The dialogue was