<P> Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster is a private golf club located in Bedminster, New Jersey . Approximately 40 miles (64 km) west of New York City in Somerset County, it is owned and operated by The Trump Organization . </P> <P> Donald Trump bought the property, which included the estate of automaker John Z . De Lorean, for less than $35 million in 2002 . It was previously known as Lamington Farm and the site of a foundering golf course construction project . The 36 - hole club was built by golf course architects Tom Fazio and Tom Fazio II, and the first course opened thirteen years ago in 2004 . </P> <P> Membership in the club costs at the most $300,000 In 2005, Golf Magazine ranked it at #73 in the United States and #84 by Golf Digest for 2005 and 2006 . </P> <P> For tax purposes, The Trump Organization secured a classification of the Bedminster course and the Trump course in Colts Neck as farmland . For that purpose, part of the acreage at Bedminster is used for growing hay and raising eight goats . The Wall Street Journal estimated that the use of the property tax exemption for farmland reduced the tax bill on the two golf courses from $80,000 to less than $1,000 . The director of the New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club said that Trump was "hiding behind a farmland assessment to get a massive tax break on a golf course ." </P>

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