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But it is at his Menie estate in Aberdeenshire where the Mexican flags are flying high. Michael Forbes and David Milne, who were among the residents Trump threatened with compulsory purchase orders when they refused to sell him their properties to make way for a luxury golf resort, have hoisted the flags in a show of solidarity with the people of Mexico.

And as the residents of the Menie estate know only too well, Trump has form on walls. Around jobs have been created on the Menie estate and a single golf course is in operation, along with a granite-clad clubhouse.

Plans for a second golf course have yet to materialise — much to the relief of local residents who fear it would destroy another stretch of wild dunes. Forbes has watched for more than a decade as the Trump claims and promises have come to nothing. The bedroom hotel has never been built. The 1, houses failed to materialise.

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Instead a golf course for the wealthy now stands between him and his salmon fishing boat, with Forbes complaining he is unable to access the beach to fish. But in fact it destroyed the ability of the sand dunes to move and shift naturally, something that was highlighted by every credible environmental group in the land when his plans were first submitted.

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Trump also insists he has been a good neighbour. No champagne has changed hands! Indeed a small amount of these diseases might well be welcomed as it kills off the invasive weed grass without affecting the fescues! The second hole Crater is the first of four par threes and the green is almost blind. The view from this high tee is of wide open space with the beach on the right and rolling agricultural fields inland, beyond the fescues, bents and marram grasses of this wonderful stretch of linksland.

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The other par threes at the ninth Cheviot View and thirteen Lough both around yards are far from easy but not memorable but the fifteenth Bide-a-wee is quite delightful and distinctive. Bide-a-wee is played from a high tee at yards with the green on view beneath you in a bowl with three sides and some old gnarled, characterful bushes as a back drop.

Luckily when I was playing recently, I did so with a member, David Greenshields of Barenbrug Seeds and he being a scratch golfer was able to advise me that the percentage shot to play was a full toss into the back left hand bank to stun your ball backwards down onto the green. It worked; we halved in threes.

He also pointed out to me how he had encouraged the over-seeding with some new cultivar of dwarf ryegrass his company had developed. This grass was applied to the front bank of this hole where the soil gets compacted from strong traffic. It does now have some grass cover whereas he described previously how it was dust in the summer and mud in the winter. This new cultivar is paler and on this site did merge into the surrounding fescues without overly standing out or looking manicured.

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As I started to warm up, I hit two cracking shots along the hump-backed par five sixth Cocklaw fairway but failed to get up and down for my birdie on the strongly raised two-tier green. The seventh Valley turns for home along the railway line from which in earlier days one was able to alight at Goswick Halt but now the London to Edinburgh Express just thunders by. It has a fascinating medley of five bunkers in a row on the lower side of the shelf green and looking to avoid them I smashed and lost my approach in jungle grass on the other side, up the railway embankment.

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Perhaps the tiger players with wind assistance could carry the corner bunkers but for ordinary mortals the central front and right hand bunkers protect the green well. After the flat short ninth hole we are now back at the clubhouse and the tenth Lang Whang used to be originally the first before the two nines were swapped over.

This course being predominantly a James Braid lay-out it is not surprising that this is only the second straight hole we have encountered on the card and David and I both played it well. I struck a most satisfactory low, running one iron into the wind and we both came up just short of the green, then executing two excellent dead bump-and-runs. Fine Golf all round. The deep swales in the par five eleventh Goswick fairway give it character and there is interesting movement in the green here.

Although these new greens have been laid down for over ten years one can see the sward is still not fully mature, though the ball runs as truly and smoothly as on the other greens. When a course manager prefers not to return my simple short greenkeeping survey it is normally an indication they either are embarrassed by or want to hide how much annual meadow grass Poa annua their course has!

The fourteenth Dune is fun with a well bunkered drive and a short iron second across a right hand dogleg with a mound obscuring the green that is for the first time on the sea side of the spine of dune that runs through the course. The seventeenth is called Stonehenge. I guess this naming derives from the two Neolithic like upright stones that are now widely spaced either side of the fairway near the green.

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I agree with Bill McCreath, author of the centenary book, that it is a pity the stones that were previously closer together and therefore needed to be avoided, were relocated wider. They were surely a unique feature and though the odd good shot may have been unfairly penalised by them they must also have given the approach to this par five green an extra strategic interest.