Trump Turnberry Lighthouse | A Behind-the-Scenes Look Inside the Legendary Trump Turnberry Golf Course + Tour of Scotland’s Trump Turnberry (Set Amongst Ruins of Turnberry Castle, Said birthplace of King Robert the Bruce)

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(Speaker 3)
Alright kids, mom is going to give you a tour of the lighthouse right here at the Trump Turnberry in Scotland. So Byrd, take the way.

(Speaker 1)
Okay, I’m shutting the door here. So you come in and down here, you’ve got this kind of line featuring all the different Trump properties. You have this about the hotel and the spa. And actually we found out from the guy who drove us over here, this property was built in 1906, but he only bought it like 16 years ago.

(Speaker 3)
He said it’s the nicest it’s ever been.

(Speaker 1)
I guess it was owned by the Japanese at one point, the Saudis, the Americans also. But yeah, he’s worked on all different owners. And he just said that what Trump has done with this property, it’s run better than ever before. And it also looks better and is upkept better. His name was Jim.

(Speaker 27)
He was singing.

(Speaker 3)
Probably the nicest concierge guy in the whole world.

(Speaker 1)
Oh, he was amazing.

(Speaker 59)
We love him.

(Speaker 1)
So kids, Eric was nice enough to go above and beyond.

(Speaker 27)
And let me show you.

(Speaker 1)
First off, these golf balls we really love.

(Speaker 53)
There was four.

(Speaker 54)
I’ve already eaten two.

(Speaker 1)
I saved two for your dad. So I won’t be hearing about all that. They gave us these really nice Scotland hats. So I’m very excited about that. So you’ll see us sporting that on our boat now this summer. OK, guys, that’s what we’re going to be sporting, mom and dad.

(Speaker 1)
of course all the fruits wish angelina you were here and you could get how these apricots are like a different color than our apricots they’re they’re they’re like a brighter so i guess it’s like a scotland thing maybe um really nice i love it

(Speaker 58)
this one.

(Speaker 1)
We haven’t opened they’ve given us a couple letters, but but anyways You know some tonic water some alcohol some gin all of this giving to us even in here They said everything in my mini fridge not that we’re gonna be having all this guys, but look I put my yogurt in there so ignore that put yogurt in there for you They’re upstairs now So this is really nice.

(Speaker 3)
Oh, you want to open the ladder right now, okay.

(Speaker 1)
Well, I figure I don’t want to forget. It’s very nice. So we’ll go over, this is all like the house rules pretty much.

(Speaker 3)
No streaking.

(Speaker 14)
Who made that rule?

(Speaker 26)
We’re going up the lighthouse.

(Speaker 15)
This is a lighthouse, so it’s an actual.

(Speaker 1)
Here’s in here, which mom and dad have been, have every converter possible, adapter possible for charging all over the UK, I guess. And this is the room mom and dad are staying in. And it’s a fantastic view out here. Actually, we came in, we were kind of jet lagged, and we all just passed out.

(Speaker 16)
We hardly got up right now.

(Speaker 3)
It’s the best view ever in the world, though.

(Speaker 57)
Look at this, kids.

(Speaker 21)
And the weather is perfect.

(Speaker 1)
It’s not cold either.

(Speaker 4)
It’s beautiful and sunny.

(Speaker 24)
And look at this view.

(Speaker 3)
This lighthouse was built on top of the castle of the man who liberated Scotland, right?

(Speaker 1)
Yeah, I took a picture of it at the main hotel and it talks about, so his family, I guess, had a castle here, Robert the Bruce.

(Speaker 50)
The Bruce.

(Speaker 56)
Look at that island behind you.

(Speaker 9)
Look at that.

(Speaker 3)
Tell us about the view you’re seeing. here to your left.

(Speaker 55)
Tell us the view you see to your left.

(Speaker 1)
I guess that’s the place, right?

(Speaker 55)
It is.

(Speaker 27)
Wow.

(Speaker 1)
It’s huge. It’s way bigger than we showed you guys online. Online it looks like it’s the main hotel building and this lighthouse, but actually the lighthouse is kind of a distance away, which is nice. It’s very private, but there’s so many different buildings in between and it’s way bigger than you would think. It’s just like a ton of land. There’s so many sheep everywhere.

(Speaker 1)
I guess the guy driving us down said the sheep is like one of the main things and then a lot of the black and white deer -looking cows.

(Speaker 54)
But they’re not like our cows.

(Speaker 32)
They look tall.

(Speaker 53)
They’re tall.

(Speaker 3)
They’re like tall, athletic cows. Seriously, it’s like our cows are like slow and big. Their cows are almost like a horse build.

(Speaker 31)
Pretty wild.

(Speaker 1)
We’ve got the bathroom here that we’re using, so all of Sarah’s things, all her stuff here, the shower, the tub. And actually, I want to show you guys. a whole other room up here that we don’t even have to use because dad and I live in the same room but if you ever had a family I guess it makes sense you could put the other people in the other room and then also downstairs you know you could have people down there so you could have a whole family come up here really it’s a great setup so this is the other room it’s kind of the same thing here but they’re ready for us.

(Speaker 3)
I’ll let you greet Jim real quick. I’m gonna keep filming this real quick here. Incredible Jim is here.

(Speaker 22)
Oh yeah.

(Speaker 3)
Okay we’re here with real people from Scotland and kids this is what they sound like. So we’ll start with you here on the far right. What is your name?

(Speaker 52)
Where are you from?

(Speaker 3)
And where is AIR? A quick question, what does it mean when people say a wee? They say wee a lot here, like it’s a wee drive.

(Speaker 51)
It’s a wee drive.

(Speaker 4)
It’s a wee drive. I mean, it’s just a small drive.

(Speaker 50)
Just a small drive.

(Speaker 49)
OK.

(Speaker 3)
All right.

(Speaker 4)
Now, in the middle, where are you from? Hello, I’m Caroline.

(Speaker 3)
I’m from Prestwick in Ayrshire originally, but I live in Edinburgh, now the capital of Scotland.

(Speaker 4)
And is this a ladies’ night, or what are you guys doing tonight?

(Speaker 48)
We’re friends reuniting.

(Speaker 12)
We’re reliving our youth.

(Speaker 25)
Oh, so his daughter’s good, too?

(Speaker 9)
Really, she’s a great golfer.

(Speaker 47)
I guess they all would have to be great golfers in that family, right?

(Speaker 2)
Very smart. This one looks exactly like young boys. He plays golf, everyone around him plays golf.

(Speaker 33)
Yeah.

(Speaker 2)
We’re all teaching them, guys warm up to play golf.

(Speaker 12)
Okay.

(Speaker 36)
Convince themselves they’re good at it.

(Speaker 46)
Yeah.

(Speaker 2)
Even if they’re not.

(Speaker 17)
What’s that?

(Speaker 8)
A bunch of chimneys?

(Speaker 3)
Yeah.

(Speaker 45)
What are some common phrases people say in Scotland that they don’t say other places?

(Speaker 5)
What’s a pub? No, no. This is.. .Tumbly is just the… Just this? Just this.

(Speaker 44)
And there’s a few houses.

(Speaker 5)
See, there’s some houses over here. Yes, yes.

(Speaker 3)
That’s about it. There’s nothing much else.

(Speaker 4)
You can look through this guy and see him mining the stuff to make the pearling sport happen.

(Speaker 3)
Okay, and what is your name and where are you from?

(Speaker 17)
I’m Aileen, I live in Troon, which is just 40 minutes up the coast, but originally I’m from the highlands just north of Inverness.

(Speaker 43)
And what brings you to the Trump Turnberry tonight?

(Speaker 1)
Just a friend’s get -together.

(Speaker 42)
Girls’ night out.

(Speaker 41)
How far away was the Highlands?

(Speaker 22)
We’re looking at maybe some… From here, if you’re going to Inverness, from here, four hours’ drive.

(Speaker 10)
Okay.

(Speaker 4)
Yeah.

(Speaker 9)
Wow.

(Speaker 4)
That’s well worth it. It is worth it. Especially this way and a half.

(Speaker 3)
And don’t just stop at Inverness.

(Speaker 11)
Go over the Cromarty Bridge and go to the likes of Olney, Dorniff.

(Speaker 3)
They’ve got the Life’s golf course if you’re into golf at Dorniff. Dorniff.

(Speaker 17)
If you could choose to go to the Highlands or what was the place?

(Speaker 1)
Glasgow. Glasgow.

(Speaker 2)
What would you go to? Highlands. Highlands. conjoining and we’re about to go into the news. wow with all the mirrors and yeah i imagine at night a lot of weddings you guys have said i can’t even explain to you how big it is i don’t even know what to say it is humongous it goes way out to the sea and then there’s horse stables there’s the hotel there’s you can barely see the lighthouse back there It’s kind of easy to follow. This course in particular, each hole follows each hole.

(Speaker 22)
You can’t really get lost in this course.

(Speaker 1)
Other courses are a bit difficult, you can get lost. You wouldn’t know where to go.

(Speaker 10)
The academy will tell you where to go.

(Speaker 2)
This one, every hole follows every hole. You can’t really get lost. Well, I saw that in our room they had a thing about keeping the horses.

(Speaker 40)
I could not believe how cheap.

(Speaker 39)
They said they would keep so much horse.

(Speaker 19)
Correct.

(Speaker 23)
So if the member here, right, I carried for a guy this morning who’s a member of Utah, police in Utah and a police in Arizona.

(Speaker 17)
Arizona’s $300 ,000 and Utah’s $170 ,000.

(Speaker 2)
Here, $5 ,000.

(Speaker 22)
What?

(Speaker 2)
That’s what it is. Do you remember what I mean? $5 ,000.

(Speaker 8)
is it like that?

(Speaker 2)
Yeah, you tell him When Mr Trump bought it, I thought he was going to price it up Get rid of all the members and bring some wealthy people With me?

(Speaker 11)
With me?

(Speaker 1)
Mm hmm I’ll take you down there in a wee minute So have you been out here yet? This is probably the best course in the world I think so I mean it almost looks like the Bahamas It’s just stunning Yeah it is Oh okay Now don’t look at the water He just wants to bring everyone to the water Make sense The first thing I did when I got to the hotel, when he bought it It totally buffeted it, and it halved the occupancy and doubled the size of the rooms.

(Speaker 22)
So that was a plus for me.

(Speaker 28)
The range became nicer.

(Speaker 1)
Yeah, and bigger.

(Speaker 38)
Yeah.

(Speaker 22)
Now, most of these people out here from far away, I didn’t even know there was actual sand here. I thought it was just because you couldn’t see, you know?

(Speaker 37)
This beach is wild.

(Speaker 16)
It’s so private.

(Speaker 36)
Do you guys own all the way up to the beach?

(Speaker 2)
Right to here.

(Speaker 8)
OK.

(Speaker 20)
yeah.

(Speaker 2)
The beach is public.

(Speaker 35)
But no one’s living here?

(Speaker 2)
No, no one is. The water fountain number 6. Wow. It is.

(Speaker 34)
And again, before Trump bought it, we used to walk down this way and never come up here.

(Speaker 2)
Just look at this bird. I do must tell you that it doesn’t always look like this. It’s a new fairway and a new green all over here.

(Speaker 31)
White, blues and yellows.

(Speaker 22)
He built that as well.

(Speaker 2)
Yeah? Yeah.

(Speaker 33)
Before he bought it, it was an old wooden bridge.

(Speaker 2)
And the stone that’s used to build that bridge and build the front of the creek, It comes from Williamstown, South Alabama.

(Speaker 32)
Williamstown, North Carolina.

(Speaker 2)
in the lighthouse. Number 7. Used to be the fareway to the lighthouse.

(Speaker 31)
The fareway used to go right towards the lighthouse.

(Speaker 2)
Okay. And it’s moved it all the way over on the left side. Hello Mary!

(Speaker 7)
This is all on you.

(Speaker 30)
The fareway used to go straight on you.

(Speaker 2)
See all this ridge on the right side? Yes.

(Speaker 29)
That’s on you.

(Speaker 2)
Number 9 is pretty much the signature boat.

(Speaker 1)
I always think this is the signature boat.

(Speaker 2)
It is over here and it’s huge. It’s beautiful.

(Speaker 24)
It’s actually two because a lot of the boat buses are way up on the hill here.

(Speaker 2)
So there’s two 18s and a 9. So there’s three boat buses. The guys in the agency have caddies.

(Speaker 8)
How many caddies do you have up here?

(Speaker 2)
Well, we’ve changed over the last 15 months.

(Speaker 3)
We used to have 70 caddies, which is normal enough. 70?

(Speaker 2)
Yeah. But they’ve now got 150 names. They’re not going to use them. But I would say probably, so, on Saturday, we need 140 caddies in one day. Wow, 140 caddies. Yeah, so some of the guys, some of the guys will go,

(Speaker 2)
What are all your duties that you do? There’s so much you do, I’m sure. Wow And put a new tea box in it, just a beautiful, beautiful home Wow So see when you look up the coast, you see the white buildings?

(Speaker 4)
Yes That’s true So this you’re looking at here is a big island called Aran That’s the island of Aran Uh huh See that land over there? Yeah That’s the same land we’re sitting on just now Really? Yeah, it goes round that way, all the way around in a bay, it’s a huge bay Okay Called the 5th of Clyde It’s a 5 hour drive over there Wow 25 minutes on a helicopter Do you golf?

(Speaker 16)
No I used to golf a lot, I’ve got a very bad back, so I’ve played once in five years.

(Speaker 28)
I was pretty good at it, even though I do say so myself.

(Speaker 7)
I was decent enough I had a handicap before, which is This day and age, when I put it all the way to the end of the road It’s like a waterway Yes You don’t have to see, you just go all the way to the water It runs it all the way to the clubhouse Yeah You’ve got Mr. Frunk picking a mound halfway up it just to break it up Yeah And that’s the second runway And that goes all the way across the main road And then the third runway’s over the main road going this way. So from the air, it’s a perfect triangle.

(Speaker 1)
It was a huge airport.

(Speaker 20)
Glasgow is nice, but Highlands is spectacular.

(Speaker 4)
If the weather’s not so good, probably to go to Glasgow. But see, if the weather’s lovely, go away to the Highlands.

(Speaker 1)
I have a question.

(Speaker 27)
How do you guys…

(Speaker 4)
I follow your money. And the Queen’s on your money, from England.

(Speaker 9)
I’m like, what is that? It’s getting phased out because…

(Speaker 21)
The King.

(Speaker 1)
The Queen’s son.

(Speaker 6)
I guess I just have not up on my history and I was like, why is it English? And they were like, no, no, no.

(Speaker 4)
That’s a normal part of the United Kingdom. Yeah, because we’re part of the UK.

(Speaker 3)
We’re part of the UK.

(Speaker 26)
We watch too much William Wallace for Braveheart.

(Speaker 18)
So do we.

(Speaker 4)
We watch all the Robert and the Bruce films.

(Speaker 9)
I thought that they were British.

(Speaker 20)
We wanted to be.

(Speaker 4)
There was a referendum.

(Speaker 19)
We wanted to stay a union.

(Speaker 3)
Any message that my kids need to know back in America?

(Speaker 1)
We’ll start with you.

(Speaker 3)
Come to Scotland.

(Speaker 1)
Come to Scotland.

(Speaker 3)
The best place in the world. It’s beautiful.

(Speaker 1)
It’s amazing.

(Speaker 3)
You will love the history.

(Speaker 1)
You’ll love the place. Here we are in AYR, the place where everything is shut down perpetually. The city other than the theater. Right, the theater, everyone’s in the theater. I’m not really sure what’s going on in the theater though. We’re not really sure what’s going on in that theater.

(Speaker 1)
There, it stands for perpetual vacancy and no ambition. Our man to come get us though, he’s great and they’re super motivated over there. Yeah, Trump Turnberry, the beacon of ambition.

(Speaker 25)
People doing castle things.

(Speaker 14)
So we’re at the gas house, which every.

(Speaker 1)
here, there’s just so much stuff needed to run the place. There’s a big pit there where the gas was stored.

(Speaker 24)
I guess it floated, somehow they had a container that floated in the water and a pulley system.

(Speaker 23)
And so this guy is not a king who lives here.

(Speaker 1)
It’s almost like they have their own little city, like he’s a business owner the way I see it. And if you were in charge of the gas production, there’s a house up here you live in, the gas house. So if you live in the house right up there, kind of like us, you commute just to walk to work. We live on site. And in here, this is the gas house. And everything is protected by walls everywhere.

(Speaker 1)
This is where they would run the gas for the whole castle.

(Speaker 11)
And everything needed is piped to that.

(Speaker 14)
It’s really amazing.

(Speaker 1)
See, we were up on the other side of that pond, right, looking down?

(Speaker 22)
Steel structure like this, that’s about this only difference is, and we can show you the spot, but I think on the bottom, it would be good to have it braced by stone.

(Speaker 1)
And the path is a little bit uneven, so we just want to make sure that it’s level. But yeah, something like this for our wisteria to grow over. The garden is huge. Here’s another small greenhouse. There’s the garden house over there, which I think the master gardener would have lived in. Huge walls.

(Speaker 3)
Everything is grown here. This would require a full -time staff just for the garden.

(Speaker 21)
Just for the garden.

(Speaker 20)
It’s been a medieval parking lot Let’s go underneath this thing.

(Speaker 4)
So on the other side of that greenhouse is a wall. And then on the back side is a greenhouse.

(Speaker 20)
There’s over a thousand acres on this property.

(Speaker 4)
Other houses that they just leased now to people, residences, but I guess they would have been workers who lived.

(Speaker 19)
Oh my gosh, it just keeps going.

(Speaker 4)
Any message that my kids need to know back in America?

(Speaker 13)
We’ll start with you.

(Speaker 2)
Come to Scotland.

(Speaker 18)
Come to Scotland.

(Speaker 17)
The best place in the world.

(Speaker 4)
It’s beautiful.

(Speaker 11)
It’s amazing.

(Speaker 3)
You would love the history.

(Speaker 13)
You’d love the place.

(Speaker 8)
Absolutely.

(Speaker 4)
People are so friendly.

(Speaker 10)
Take that.

(Speaker 4)
That’s Gaelic.

(Speaker 1)
That’s Gaelic.

(Speaker 4)
Translate on for that. What’s that thing I found? Haggish? Haggis.

(Speaker 16)
Oh, you like it?

(Speaker 9)
Oh, haggis is amazing.

(Speaker 13)
That’s traditional Scottish.

(Speaker 9)
You need to try it.

(Speaker 4)
I keep seeing it everywhere on the menu.

(Speaker 1)
It’s basically the worst bits of an animal.

(Speaker 4)
It’s lovely though. It’s lovely though. Honestly, it’s tasty because they do it with oats and spices.

(Speaker 10)
Have you been to Scotland before then?

(Speaker 4)
No.

(Speaker 11)
Is this your first visit?

(Speaker 12)
Yeah.

(Speaker 10)
So how long are you here for then?

(Speaker 1)
We leave Sunday.

(Speaker 10)
Oh, how long have you been here for?

(Speaker 9)
We got here Wednesday.

(Speaker 4)
Just a quick trip, we got all the kids.

(Speaker 3)
Oh, quite right.

(Speaker 8)
Good without the kids, good without the kids.

(Speaker 14)
Amazing, wonderful.

(Speaker 1)
Good, and your first visit to Scotland Dulles, amazing. So where do you fly back to from?

(Speaker 15)
Glasgow.

(Speaker 14)
Glasgow to?

(Speaker 13)
To Amsterdam, and then from Amsterdam to Atlanta, from Atlanta to Tulsa.

(Speaker 9)
You’re in Tulsa?

(Speaker 4)
Yeah, Tulsa.

(Speaker 1)
I love the Tulsa King. Hey, thank you for letting me film you by the way, I really appreciate this, this is great.

(Speaker 4)
We’re with mom and it’s raining. It’s raining.

(Speaker 10)
We were out sitting on a grass and then suddenly it just came down.

(Speaker 4)
It’s been sunny our whole trip.

(Speaker 11)
Here it comes.

(Speaker 12)
Here it comes.

(Speaker 11)
So how long are you here for?

(Speaker 1)
We leave Sunday.

(Speaker 10)
How long have you been here for?

(Speaker 9)
We got here Wednesday.

(Speaker 4)
Just a quick trip, we got all the kids.

(Speaker 3)
Oh, quite right. Good with the kids, good with the kids. They’ve been wonderful. Good, and your first visit to Scotland Dulles, that’s amazing. So where do you fly back to from? Glasgow.

(Speaker 3)
Glasgow to? To Amsterdam, and then from Amsterdam to Atlanta, from Atlanta to Tulsa.

(Speaker 8)
You’re in Tulsa? Yeah, Tulsa Oklahoma. I love the Tulsa King. Hey, thank you for let me film you by the way, I really appreciate this it’s great It’s okay, I’ve stuck my toe in the bathroom like I think five times a little edge in the bathroom Thank you Tell me what you just told me though. I’m going to wear it again.

Keep the streak alive. Only wear that shirt. Wear the black shirt. Wear the black shirt. Please, hold it.

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