'World's greatest golf course' could create hotel jobs in Scotland

17/02/2010 11:18:42

Plans for "the world's greatest golf course" and a resort in Menie, north of Aberdeen, have been submitted by Donald Trump in a move that could eventually create hotel jobs in Scotland.

The proposals have been more than three years in the making but have finally been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council.

An overarching plan for the site has been submitted along with detailed designs for the championship golf course. Approval for a hotel and accompanying village has not yet been sought.

Dr Martin Hawtree, who designed the course, said: "The landscape framework of the site comes close to an ideal. There is nothing missing and the layout as conceived would contain no weak holes. It will produce simply the most dramatic, stimulating, invigorating stretch of golf anywhere I have seen in my career."

The plans have come under fire as they will use land which is still privately owned and includes houses. A Tripping Up Trump campaign has been created in support of the families whose homes are threatened.

Top French chef Albert Roux, who has trained chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, is to open two new restaurants at hotels in Sutherland and East Lothian, the Herald reported recently.

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