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
Desert Forest Golf Club Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die". Over time the course has also ranked among the best in the US according to "Golf Digest Magazine", which began keeping a list of "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses" (first as "America's 100 Most Testing Courses") in 1969, a list on which Desert Forest has appeared for a total of 17 of the years since. This makes it one of the most consistently ranked golf courses by the magazine in America. In 2013 Golf Course Architect David Zinkand was engaged to create a new Master Plan for the golf course, and to