Donald Trump and golf is more than a game. It is a passion." In 1999, Trump opened his first golf course: the Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach in Florida. Land for the US$45 million course was acquired through a lawsuit against Palm Beach County, Florida after Trump's purchase of the Mar-a-Lago resort. By 2007, Trump owned 4 courses around the US. Following the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Trump began purchasing existing golf courses and re-designing them. Golf courses owned by Trump hosted the LPGA Tour finale from 2001 to 2008, as well as the 2009 US Junior Amateur and US Junior Girls
City Park Golf Courses (New Orleans) were officially changed, and the entire City Park Golf Course complex was renamed Bayou Oaks Golf Complex. However, many patrons still referred to the courses as South, East, West, and North. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed the golf complex. In 2009, the north course was rebuilt and the driving range reopened. In 2011 it was decided that when complete, City Park's new golf complex, which consists of the Championship Course and North Course, will include two, eighteen-hole golf courses, a comprehensive practice area, including the practice driving range, ancillary short-game facility and clubhouse to be located on the South Course.