President Trump said Jack Nicklaus, the retired professional golfer, will oversee an overhaul of the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews.
Trump told reporters he was tapping Nicklaus as the architect of the project on Saturday before boarding Marine One to head to Andrews, where he later took an aerial tour of the landscape.
“We’re doing some fix-up of the base, which it needs. We’re going to try and reinstitute the golf courses. I’m meeting with the greatest Jack Nicklaus,” Trump said.
“He’s involved in trying to bring their recreational facility back,” he added, calling it a “great place that has been destroyed over the years through lack of maintenance, so we’ll fix that up, and Jack will be the architect and he’ll design it.”
Trump said the project would address “two existing courses that are in very bad shape” and said, “We can, for very little money, fix it up.”
“And we’re looking at other things over at Andrews,’ the president added.
The golf courses are the latest addition to the president’s list of renovations undertaken since returning to the White House earlier this year.
The president has demolished the East Wing to make room for a White House ballroom, which Trump said will be funded by himself and other donors. Trump also redid the Rose Garden, replacing the law with a paved patio. He redecorated the Lincoln Bathroom and the Palm Room and installed a Walk of Fame of presidential portraits near the Rose Garden.
Andrews houses Air Force One and is approximately 15 miles from the White House. Former President Gerald Ford was the first president to golf there in 1974, The Associated Press reported.
The facility includes three 18-hole golf courses, and Trump indicated that at least two of them would be renovated. It also includes three practice putting greens, two practice areas and a driving range, the AP reported.
Trump has been known to golf in his free time, but he has not frequently visited the courses at Andrews, opting instead to play at courses near his own properties.
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