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With the Washington Monument in the background, a golfer tees off at East Potomac Golf Course in Washington on May 4, 2026. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
Trump administration reaches deal with nonprofit over DC golf courses
Listen to this articleWASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s administration and a nonprofit group that runs Washington, D.C.’s public golf courses reached a deal Friday under which the organization will have a new long-term lease of two courses while federal officials will overhaul a third one.
The two sides released a joint statement on Friday. The National Links Trust nonprofit will have a new long-term lease to operate and redevelop Langston Golf Course and Rock Creek Park Golf, the statement said.
The statement added that the nonprofit will continue to operate East Potomac Golf Links on an interim basis until the Interior Department‘s National Park Service starts what it calls a “historic restoration” of the waterfront course.
All three public golf courses in the U.S. capital will remain open, the statement added.
In December, the Trump administration ended National Links’ previous deal to oversee D.C.’s public golf courses. Critics saw the cancellation as another step in Trump’s push to remake the look of the nation’s capital.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; editing by Sergio Non and Kim Coghill.
