At Mr. Trump’s Westchester club in the suburbs of New York — an area where Hillary Clinton outpolled Mr. Trump last November<br />— several members departed in the months after Mr. Trump entered the presidential race, current and former members said.<br />Trump will have the use of these funds for that period without cost.”<br />The Trumps have not disclosed how much money they collect in initiation fees, but<br />that same document shows that in 2004 — before the stepped-up expansion into golf — Mr. Trump said he had control of nearly $75 million in such fees.<br />Within the fragmented golf industry — largely composed of small nonprofit clubs owned by their members<br />and only a few publicly traded companies — the Trumps have far fewer courses than the industry’s biggest players, like the Dallas-based ClubCorp, which owns or manages over 200 courses and earned some $1 billion in revenue in its last fiscal year, according to IBISWorld, an industry research company.<br />Soon after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, a federal judge in Florida ordered his golf club in Jupiter, Fla., to pay $5.7<br />million for refusing to refund deposits to members who tried to resign from the club before the Trumps bought it.<br />Mr. Trump’s 16 golf resorts and clubs across the globe (and three more under development, in Indonesia<br />and Dubai) generated more than $320 million in revenue, Mr. Trump reported on his personal financial disclosure last year, which covers all of 2015 and nearly five months of 2016.<br />“The fact that we have a sitting president of the United States affiliated with the facility where a major championship is being played —<br />that is very good for golf and for this course,” said Ted Bishop, a former president of the P. G.A.
