Trump this
Donald Trump examines the fairways at Ocean Trails. Photo by David Fairchild New York City’s biggest developer promises Palos Verdes the country’s best golf course, or else… Editor’s note: In December 2002, current Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump addressed Palos Verdes leaders and residents at his newly acquired Peninsula golf course about his “weekend project,” as he described it. The following story about that visit originally appeared in the December 2002 Peninsula People. Ocean Trails golf course in Palos Verdes looked like fabled St. Andrew’s – “18 blind holes in 80 acres of wind,” as Ocean Trails’ designer Pete Dye once described golf’s Scottish birthplace when comparing the relative difficulty of the two courses. Ocean Trail’s ocean view, which the legendary golf course designer said is the course’s greatest asset, had disappeared in the wind-driven rain. But worse than the rain was the fog that shut down the course even to east coast golfers like Donald Trump, for whom wet weather is just another hazard. Trump was at Ocean Trails to tell Rancho Palos Verdes officials and residents his plan for making his latest acquisition “the best golf course in the…
Read this story on easyreadernews.com