A Boston public-radio station aired an interview with golf writer James Dodson, who reported that he was told by Eric Trump while playing a round in 2014 at Trump National Golf Club in Charlotte, N.C. that the Trump Organization was receiving “all the funding we need out of Russia” so it could continue to buy and build new properties during the recovery from the recession. Eric Trump then tweeted that Dodson’s account was “completely fabricated” and then elaborated that “we own all of [our] assets free and clear.”

The new championship golf course in New Orleans’ City Park evoked mentions of top public venues such as Torrey Pines and Bethpage Black when it was officially unveiled on April 21. The course is the centerpiece of a $26 million public-private project that is being hailed as a symbol of the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The annual auction held on TheGolfAuction.com site included the sale of a Masters flag signed by 34 past Masters champions for a world-record $11,460. The site is now gearing up for its next auction around the U.S. Open and is soliciting submissions to be sold.

The Longmeadow, Mass. property has rebounded from being on the brink of being sold, after a member stepped up in 2009 to become its new owner and direct $10 million in improvements and a revival of membership interest.

Several steps remain to complete the arrangement that would bring the Open back to L.A. for the first time in 75 years, when it was won by Ben Hogan at Riviera CC.

Though Firestone & Robertson Distilling Co., vowed to preserve some of the Fort Worth, Texas club’s history, the estates of Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan asked the owners not to include images of the golf icons, as Nelson was a “a Christian and a gentleman and did not drink alcoholic beverages.”

The historic property in Fort Worth, Texas, where Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson learned the game, is under contract to be sold to a craft whiskey producer that says it needs to expand operations and create a meeting center. The golf course, or part of it, could be preserved as part of a tourist attraction.

After a seven-year absence from the market, Perry Ellis International, which purchased the brands in 2012, has announced plans to restore the Ben Hogan Company through its Eidolon Brands LLC subsidiary and re-introduce Ben Hogan golf clubs in 2015.

With a completion date of April 1, the Galloway, N.J., club’s project will incorporate new tee boxes on the fourth, fifth, 10th and 12th holes, which will add 150 yards in overall length to the golf course. Additional course refinements include rebuilding all tee boxes and tee surfaces, adding new GPS units in the golf carts, and redesigning tee signs, markers and in-ground tee and fairway yardage plates.