Royal Portrush's Dunluce Links will be ready for play in 2018 but will it get The Open in 2019 or 2020 as Donald Trump and Turnberry's Ailsa Course lurk in the background?

A European Tour spokesman has confirmed that Lough Erne Resort will host the Irish Open as planned in 2017.

Our sources in Doonbeg tells us that the Trump organisation has started taking tough decisions with one of the first announcements the likely introduction of a three-day week for staff over the winter months.

It was more like the visit of a Head of State than a businessman but with Trump promising to double or even triple the reported €15m he's invested in purchasing the Co Clare resort, it would not have been unusual to see the Minister doing cartwheels at the thought of hundreds of new jobs being created.

It didn't take long for Donald Trump to get the lawyers involved at Doonbeg. According to the Irish Examiner's Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Trump "has threatened to hold Clare County Council responsible for any income lost as a result of 'obstruction' of his efforts to carry out vital remedial works at his west Clare golf course.

Donald Trump would like to use all the dunes at Doonbeg and create the course that Greg Norman couldn't build because of environmental restrictions. What do you think?

Less than a year after "blowing up" Doral's Blue Monster to create what a radically different challenge for world's elite in this week's WGC-Cadillac Championship, Donald Trump is considering a complete rebuild of Doonbeg that could put him on another environmental collision course.

Donald Trump bailed out of Scotland after losing a legal battle against a wind farm being built off the coast of his Aberdeen property.  Now it appears he could face a new wind farm headache at Doonbeg.

We may have been too hasty to assume that the Trump Organisation has no plans to complete a major overhaul of Doonbeg — golf course designer Martin Hawtree met with Donald Trump's sons Eric and Don Jnr in Doonbeg today.

It doesn't sound as though the Trump Organisation is a planning a major rebuild of Doonbeg - or "Trump International Golf Links, Ireland" as it has been rebranded since Donald Trump completed a reported €15m purchase earlier this week.

Now that Donald Trump has bought Doonbeg the question remains: What will the future hold? And will Doonbeg designer Greg Norman get the inevitable redesign gig?

Donald Donald Trump has confirmed his purchase of Doonbeg Golf Club in Co Clare - but he faces a repair bill of over €1 million following recent storm damage. 

Donald Trump's interest in Ireland is not new. In 2011, his son Donald Jnr flew to Dublin and trawled through the NAMA properties looking for a potential investment. Nothing happened. Now, according to the Irish Examiner, Trump is set to swoop in and pay €15m for Doonbeg in Co Clare, which went into receivership last month.