Jud,
You and your ilk define, for me, the demise of the GCA Discussion Board. How is it that once again, you can possibly make such an assine blanket statement when YOU'VE NEVER SET FOOT ON A COURSE LIKE BEDMINSTER and likely HAVE NEVER MET A SINGLE MEMBER??? Can you please tell all of us why members at Sebonack, Clear Creek, Old Sandwich, a Bayonne or a Rock Creek,(et.al) most of whom have paid as much(or more) as a Trump membership remain exempt from your snipes? Is it because their taste in golf architecture is closer to yours (e.g. better) and thus their "new money" is validated in your small mind? We get that you don't like the guy....fine, but not everyone, especially in the Northeast, can join a Winged Foot, Garden City, Plainfield or Somerset Hills. Why don't you ask Mike Davis what he thinks? He plays most of his yearly rounds at a Trump course !Of course, I know you are wiser, smarter and better equipped to expound on those who share lockers than a tasteless, new money guy like Mike!
You come on this site for a few months, post an opinion on near everything, and are now a judge about accumulation of wealth and preponderance of taste and style. Like I said a while back, it's okay to dislike the Donald. His personality is a lightning rod for criticism and his braggadocio rarely wanes. But as others here have noted, the guy loves the game and has set out to buy places that would likely become run-down or NLEs in little time. He's putting time and $$ into the game and that's a rare combo these days. Like him or not, that's a net positive for the game! Should he be banished form this because you don't like his personality???
It is exactly these kinds of ignorant statements that diminish the value of this GCA board. You come by them so easily that I wonder if there isn't some greater personality deficiency at work here? Perhaps your money is "old" and your "taste and style" exquisite by standards of Town & Country, but your banality is revealing and sophomoric.