'Turnberry next for The Open?' Golf fans excited as Trump course added to DP World Tour schedule

After news has just emerged out of the DP World Tour that Trump International Golf Links Scotland will host the Scottish Championship this summer, golf fans have rushed onto social media to urge the R&A to now get Turnberry back on The Open rota. 

The DP World Tour has today confirmed the 2025 Scottish Championship will now take place at Trump International Golf Links Scotland in Aberdeenshire from 7-10 August. 

The $2.75m event, which previously featured as part of the Race to Dubai in 2020, will mark the penultimate event in the Closing Swing - the fifth and final Global Swing that forms phase one of the DP World Tour's 2025 season. 

Trump International Golf Links is one of 18 properties in United States President Donald Trump's growing golf course portfolio. 

Trump, an avid golfer with a low single-figure handicap, has been acquiring and constructing golf courses since 1999. 

Trump International Golf Links Scotland has never previously hosted a DP World Tour event.

It did, however, host the Staysure PGA Seniors Championship in both 2023 and 2024, and it will make it three years on the bounce from 30 July to 3 August, the week prior to the Scottish Championship on the DP World Tour. 

The last time the Scottish Championship was even staged on the DP World Tour was during a Covid-hit 2020 schedule, when Adrian Otaegui won by four shots at Farimont St Andrews. 

Trump International Golf Links Scotland was first opened in 2012 and it was designed by Martin Hawtree. 

The partnership with Trump's Aberdeen links course has been welcomed with open arms by those above on the DP World Tour. 

"Trump International Golf Links Scotland has already earned a reputation as one of the best modern links courses in the UK and it promises to be an excellent venue for the return of the Scottish Championship to our schedule," said DP World Tour CEO Guy Kinnings. 

Eric Trump, the executive vice president of The Trump Organization, said: "We are honoured to host the Scottish Championship on the DP World Tour at our iconic property. 

"2025 is an incredible year for Trump International Scotland, as we proudly welcome two world-class tournaments and celebrate the highly anticipated grand opening of our new championship links course.

"This significant milestone reflects the hard work of our team and is a true testament to the exceptional golf and hospitality we deliver in Scotland."

Trump golf courses have regularly been hosting tournaments on LIV Golf ever since the breakaway Saudi league began in 2022. 

Most recently, Trump National Doral hosted LIV Golf Miami, which was won by Marc Leishman and Ripper GC. 

Time to get Turnberry back on The Open rota?

With politics seemingly being pushed to one side on the DP World Tour, and Trump's golf courses being used more and more regularly on the global golf landscape, a large number of fans believe the time has come for arguably the greatest links course of them all - the Ailsa Course at Trump Turnberry - to once again have its day hosting The Open Championship.

"Great, now it's your turn R&A to get Turnberry back for The Open," commented one golf fan on X / Twitter.

Another tweeted: "This is awesome, forget politics and get the Ailsa back on the map." 

"Turnberry next for The Open? Inject it," commented one excited fan. 

Another commented: "There is no doubt in my mind the Ailsa Course at Trump Turnberry is the greatest links of them all, and it always makes for a brilliant Open." 

To many golf course experts and golf lovers around the world, the four-time Open venue at Turnberry is widely recognised as the best links course in the United Kingdom, and the world. 

Golf's oldest major, which was first contested at Prestwick in 1860, has not been held at Turnberry since 2009. 

That was nearly an historic one too as Tom Watson came agonisingly close to becoming the oldest major champion in history, only for Stewart Cink to deny the greatest Open story. 

Turnberry's Ailsa course also hosted The Open in 1977, 1986 and 1994. 

In 2021, after the 6 January attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters, the R&A, which runs The Open, said it would not stage any further championships at Turnberry. 

While the R&A has declined to speak any further on the subject in recent times, it is understood according to a recent BBC report that President Trump, 78, has made repeated requests for the 156th Open to be held at his Turnberry Ailsa Course in 2028. 

Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland hosts this year's 153rd Open from 17-20 July.

Royal Birkdale in Southport will then host the 154th Open from 16-19 July 2026, before the famous Old Course at St Andrews once again returns to host the 155th Open for a record 31st time from 15-18 July 2027. 

It remains to be seen what transpires at Turnberry though, and whether the DP World Tour's latest dealings with Trump will have any sway in matters ahead of 2028.