The secretary of one of the world’s most famous golf courses has expressed sympathy for Donald Trump, who is fighting plans for a offshore windfarm near his resort in Aberdeenshire.
Tim Checketts, of Royal St Georges Golf Club at Sandwich in Kent, which hosted the British Open Championship last year, said its members would be outraged if a development was proposed two-and-a- half miles off the coast.
Mr Trump has been battling plans for the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC) planned for Aberdeen Bay, close to his golf resort at Menie Estate, near Balmedie.
He claims the 11 turbines, each 639ft, would resemble “a bad version of Disneyland” and said he would start work on his hotel and holiday homes only when the application was rejected by the Scottish Government.
Mr Checketts said: “It is hypothetical but if someone wanted to put a windfarm two miles off the coast, which would be very much in your face, I am sure the club would object.”
He said there was an off-shore windfarm about eight miles away from the links course but it had little impact.
“It is a huge field with more than 100 turbines and depending what the mist is like you can see them but they do not detract from the view,” Mr Checketts said.