At President-elect Donald Trump’s golf courses, his election posed a dilemma: Embrace the connection, or stay quiet?
A Business Insider review of their social-media output found some more keen than others.
Stalwarts close to Trump’s heart, like the courses in Bedminster, New Jersey, or Doral, Florida, posted congratulations with American flags flapping over the green.
Seven other US locations did the same.
In Scotland and Ireland — where Trump faced notably frosty receptions when visiting during his first presidency — less was forthcoming.
His links at Turnberry in southern Scotland and Doonbeg on the Irish west coast seemed not to mark the occasion.
(None of the courses responded to Business Insider’s messages asking for more detail of how the news was received.)
International courses in Dubai and Indonesia also kept quiet, as did the US courses in Los Angeles County and Hudson Valley, New York.
An exception to the trend was Trump International in northeastern Scotland, which …