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Golf course architect Donald Trump may be troubled Running Horse’s last best hope. As chronicled last month in this space, the course and its PGA Tour event are both in big trouble. The PGA Tour won’t be playing at the Jack Nicklaus design this year for sure. But Trump has high hopes and may purchase the club.

“We’re looking to try and save a very troubled situation,” Trump said after emerging from the double-wide trailer that serves as Running Horse’s on-site headquarters, where he met with Mayor Alan Autry and project developer Mick Evans, among others.
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The big challenge, Trump said, is saving the tournament for Running Horse in 2008.

“We have a great relationship with the PGA Tour,” Trump said. “If I do it, they will come. But one of the things that is very important is [course construction] has to get started very, very quickly.”
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“We would build some wonderful houses and some wonderful infrastructure and we would build one of the best golf courses in the state of California, if not the country,” he said.

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