Donald Trump has confirmed that his second golf course in Aberdeenshire will open next summer.
The 18-hole links MacLeod Course - named after the former US president’s Lewis-born mother, Mary - will welcome players at the Trump International resort near Balmedie from the summer of 2025.
The resort claimed the course would feature the “largest sand dunes in Scotland” and form “the greatest 36 holes in golf” alongside the original course, completed in 2012.
Trump International has released new images of the new course, which is perched on dramatic coastline, just yards from the North Sea.
Sarah Malone, executive vice president of Trump International Scotland, hailed the course as “one of the great wonders in the world of golf”.
She said: “Since breaking ground with President Trump and Eric Trump last spring, we have made extraordinary progress.
“This course is unlike any other links course ever built and is exceeding every expectation.
“A truly remarkable, world-class team of architects, engineers, environmental scientists and industry specialists have been working tirelessly in the background – etching out every square inch of this phenomenal piece of land to create one of the great wonders in the world of golf.”
Trump International said the new course was “one of the most environmentally friendly and sustainable” ever built.
More than 10 hectares of vegetation has been translocated across the largest sand dunes in Scotland, allowing indigenous plants to thrive and expand, while one million sprigs of native marram grass have been planted and six tonnes of marram seeds harvested.
An “innovative environmentally-friendly freshwater and drainage system” has been engineered from wetlands and ponds to provide irrigation.
Golfer Paul McGinley said: “I had the pleasure of viewing the new site at Trump during construction whilst playing the Staysure PGA Championship at Trump International in the summer.
“I have no doubt that the addition of this new golf course will provide not just a great golfing exam, but also an aesthetic one with views of the North Sea from most holes.”