The world turned on its head earlier this week when Donald Trump was voted the President-Elect of the United States of America.

While there were more pressing implications of this election result to be discussed, there was still the issue of what Trump’s election would mean for golf. As owner of Turnberry, Doral and in our country, Doonbeg, Trump was a major player in the golf industry.

It felt like golf was trying to distance itself from the new President, whose divisive rhetoric has alienated so many. The World Golf Championship at Trump’s course Doral moved to Mexico for 2017. Trump has put £200m into Turnberry in Scotland and created a top-class golf resort but the R&A is in no rush to bring the Open back there, which last hosted golf’s oldest championship in 2009. But the election results could give power back to the Trump name in the industry again, as Donald’s golf business is left in the hands of son Eric.

Joe Russell, managing director of Trump International Golf Links in Doonbeg, thinks so and said that it was a “huge positive” for the area.