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
Sand Hills Golf Club for the course. After two years of surveying the land, Coore, Crenshaw, and Youngscap built Sand Hills on 130 acres. $1.2 million was spent building the course, far less than other highly rated modern golf courses. Ranking among the most exclusive courses in the United States, the club reportedly has fewer than 200 members from across the country, almost none of whom reside in 500-person Mullen. Most members fly into Denver, Omaha, or nearby North Platte when playing at the course and stay in the on-site accommodations that can host about 55 people. Sand Hills Golf Club Sand Hills Golf