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WORLD GOLF AWARDS 2025
The 2025 World Golf Awards, the pre-eminent honours in global golf tourism, course design and hospitality, have crowned the best in the business following a year-long global nomination and voting process.
Portugal enjoyed a strong showing, with the sun-blessed nation named‘ World’ s Best Golf Destination’, and its Atlantic archipelago of Madeira claiming,‘ World ' s Best Emerging Golf Destination’.
The Algarve’ s coveted new golf course, The Els Club Vilamoura, was named‘ World’ s Best Private Golf Club’. The club is set host a new tournament on the PGA Champions Tour in summer 2026. Sir Nick Faldo was voted‘ Golf Designer of the Year’. The six-time major champion continues to expand his global design portfolio through Faldo Design, with current projects including Vietnam, Brazil, Pakistan and Madeira.
Trump International Scotland has cemented its place among the world’ s greatest golfing destinations after winning three headline honours at the 12th annual World Golf Awards. The New Course was named‘ World’ s Best Golf Course 2025’ and‘ Europe’ s Best New Golf Course 2025’, while Trump International Scotland was awarded‘ World’ s Best Contribution to Golf Tourism Hospitality 2025’.
Set against the dramatic dunes of Scotland’ s rugged northeast coast, the New Course has quickly established itself as one of the most exciting and challenging layouts in modern golf since opening last summer. The 18-hole course was designed to complement the original Championship Course, with the pair creating 36 holes of world-class golf.
The recognition for‘ World’ s Best Contribution to Golf Tourism Hospitality’ acknowledges the resort’ s exceptional service standards, worldclass facilities and commitment to enhancing Scotland’ s global reputation as the Home of Golf.
President Donald J. Trump, 45th & 47th President of The United States of America, said:“ A great honor to win such a prestigious award from the highly respected World Golf Awards. I am very proud of the job that Eric Trump and my team did on building one of the greatest golf courses anywhere in the