How the Donald Trump Golf Tracker counts rounds

donaldtrump.golf is an independent, non-commercial project that keeps a day-by-day record of the confirmed rounds of golf Donald Trump has played as president. It covers his second term from January 20, 2025, and his first term from January 20, 2017, with a page for every calendar day in both terms that answers whether he golfed that day and, if so, where.

The tracker records the date of each round and the Trump-owned course it was played at. It does not record scores, playing partners or the length of a round. Aggregate views are built from that same list: the tracker, the outings journal, the course pages, the first-term record and the cost page.

The site is not affiliated with Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, the White House or any government body. See Privacy & Terms for the full statement.

A confirmed round, also called a golf day, is a calendar day that the factba.se presidential calendar flags as a golf day and whose schedule entries place Donald Trump at a Trump-owned golf course. The calendar attaches a daily summary to each day, and its golf flag is the deciding signal: the tracker does not infer golf from a visit to a club on its own.

The course is taken from that day’s schedule entries. When a day touches more than one Trump course, such as a travel day that ends at a different club, the tracker credits the course where the schedule shows him spending the longest stretch of time, then the one with more entries, then the one that appears first.

The tracker records at most one round per day. Rounds played before an inauguration are not counted toward that term; Donald Trump golfed as President-elect on January 18, 2025, and that round is excluded from the second-term total.

Percentages such as “22.2% of days in office” divide confirmed rounds by the number of days in office, counting both inauguration day and the data-through date (645 days as of October 26, 2026).

The primary source is the factba.se presidential calendar, now published by Roll Call as Factbase, which the tracker reads through its public JSON feed. Each entry in that feed is labelled either as part of the President’s published daily schedule or as an item from White House press pool reports, the accounts filed by the rotating group of reporters who travel with the President. Arrivals and departures at golf clubs usually come from those pool reports.

First-term data comes from the same publisher’s month-by-month calendar archive for January 2017 through December 2020.

Cost figures use separate primary sources, chiefly the U.S. Government Accountability Office report GAO-19-178. The cost page lists every reference it relies on.

An ingest script downloads the calendar feed, collapses it to one entry per golf day, resolves the course and writes a data snapshot. The site is rebuilt from a fresh download twice a day, at 14:00 and 23:00 UTC, and whenever the site’s code changes.

The data-through date is the latest day for which the calendar has published a daily summary, so scheduled future events never count. A new round appears on the site at the first refresh after the calendar records it. Pages are cached, so a page can lag the latest refresh by a few hours.

The first-term snapshot is fixed and is regenerated only by hand, for example when the ingest rules change.

• Rounds that never reach the public calendar are not counted. The tracker reflects the public record. A round that was not reported by the press pool or listed on the schedule, or that the calendar does not flag as golf, will not appear.
• The golf flag is the calendar’s judgment. The tracker does not have independent confirmation of play from inside a club. A day the calendar flags as golf counts as a confirmed round, and a day it does not flag does not count, even if he was at a golf property.
• Only rounds at Trump-owned courses are counted. A golf day that cannot be matched to a Trump course, for example a round at another club, is left out. In the first term this excluded 3 of 321 flagged golf days: a resort in Greenville, South Carolina, and two rounds with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan.
• The first-term record ends on December 31, 2020. The publisher’s archive for January 2021 was replaced with the next administration’s schedule, so Donald Trump’s final 20 days in office (January 1 to 20, 2021) are not in the data.
• One round per day. If he played twice in one day, or at two courses, the tracker counts one round at one course.
• Course attribution on travel days is inferred. The longest-stay rule above is a heuristic. On a day with short stops at two clubs it can credit the wrong one; the date still counts once.

The cost page keeps verified figures and estimates visibly separate. The verified figure is GAO-19-178, the only federal audit that itemised the cost of Donald Trump’s golf travel: it put 4 first-term Mar-a-Lago trips at $13.6 million, or about $3.4 million per trip.

No comparable audit exists for the second term. The tracker’s own figure is labelled an estimate: it groups Florida rounds no more than 4 days apart into one trip and multiplies the number of trips by GAO’s per-trip figure. It is a floor, not a total, because it leaves out Bedminster, Sterling and Scotland travel and every cost GAO itself excluded.

The tracker counts confirmed rounds of golf, also called golf days. It does not count visits. Some other trackers count every day Donald Trump spent at a golf property, or at any Trump-owned property, whether or not he played. Those totals are higher by design and are not directly comparable.

For comparison, as of October 26, 2026 the calendar places Donald Trump at a Trump-owned property, including Mar-a-Lago, on 234 days of his second term, of which 143 were confirmed golf days.

Accuracy is the point of this site. If you believe a date, course or figure is wrong, email the details below with a link to a public source. Reports are checked against the presidential calendar and the source provided.

When an error comes from the tracker’s own processing, it is fixed in the ingest script rather than by editing the data by hand, so the fix applies everywhere at once. When the upstream calendar changes, the next refresh picks up the change automatically. Any correction that changes a published date, course or total is recorded in the log below with the date it was made.

Corrections, data questions and press enquiries: privacy@donaldtrump.golf. Please include the date or page concerned and, for corrections, a link to your source.