Doug Burgum releases new East Potomac Golf Links layout
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum released the design of the East Potomac Golf Links after the Trump administration’s renovations to the golf course in Washington.
The renovated course will feature a brand new driving range facing the Washington Monument and a new 18-hole course. Burgum said golf course design and consulting firm Fazio Design created the rendering.
“Like iconic public courses of Bethpage Black & Torrey Pines, East Potomac will offer locals—of the National Capital Region—championship-quality golf at affordable, highly discounted rates,” Burgum said.
The rendering features a driving range apparently larger than the current one and appears to face toward the Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument instead of the Potomac River, as it does now. The layout also appears to include one 18-hole course, replacing the current two nine-hole courses and one 18-hole course.
The redesign rendering does not appear to touch any parts of Hains Point outside the golf course’s boundaries, such as the pedestrian and bike pathways.
The Washington Examiner has reached out to the Interior Department for comment. Fazio Design did not provide a comment on the design when reached by the Washington Examiner.
Tom Fazio, a renowned course designer and architect who owns Fazio Design, has designed several famous courses across the country, including one at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina.
Burgum released the rendering following the Trump administration’s announcement that struck a deal with the nonprofit group that has leased the course for years, the National Links Trust. The deal allows the administration and the trust to begin renovating Washington’s three main public courses: East Potomac Golf Links, Langston Golf Course, and Rock Creek Park Golf.
“At Rock Creek Park Golf Course, we will restart construction of a new clubhouse, driving range, practice facilities, and maintenance facility as part of a restoration project that will create a lasting community asset for golfers and non-golfers alike,” National Links Trust co-founders Mike McCartin and Will Smith said in a Friday statement.
The deal announcement also included word that the new East Potomac Golf Links would feature a “top-tier 18-hole championship golf course capable of hosting pre-eminent tournament golf” and cater to players of all abilities.
The deal came just days after a federal judge warned of “serious consequences” if the Trump administration closed the course for construction without advanced notice to the District Court for the District of Columbia. The judge’s warning came after reservationists suing the Trump administration raised alarm bells that the Interior Department had not followed the proper environmental review process.
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