Trump administration reaches deal with non-profit over DC golf courses

By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON, ‌May 8 (Reuters) - ​President ​Donald Trump's administration and a non-profit group that runs Washington, D.C.'s ‌public golf courses reached a deal on ⁠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. Here are some details:

• The National Links Trust non-profit ⁠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 non-profit ‌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)

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