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'For the People' Golf Course Faces Presidential Overhaul

'For the People' Golf Course Faces Presidential Overhaul

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September 5th, 2026

'For the People' Golf Course Faces Presidential Overhaul

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A cluster of cyclists sped along the loop road of East Potomac Park, while in the golf course parking lot, luxury SUVs and aging, economical vehicles stood parked side by side.

์ด์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ† ๋งฅ ๊ณต์›์˜ ์ˆœํ™˜ ๋„๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ดํด๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ๋“ค, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ ์ฃผ์ฐจ์žฅ์—๋Š” ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ SUV์™€ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋˜๊ณ  ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์ œํ˜• ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰๋“ค์ด ๋‚˜๋ž€ํžˆ ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Beyond them, the Washington Monument loomed faintly in the distance.

๊ทธ ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋กœ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ๊ธฐ๋…๋น„๊ฐ€ ์•„์Šค๋ผ์ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

This scene highlighted what residents consider to be the park's greatest advantage.

์ด ์žฅ๋ฉด์€ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ๊ณต์›์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์ด์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ผฝ๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋ฅผ ๋ถ€๊ฐ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค.

Namely, the fact that it is not only highly accessible due to its location in the heart of the capital, but also inexpensive to use.

์ฆ‰, ์ˆ˜๋„ ์ค‘์‹ฌ๋ถ€์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก์•„ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์ด ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚  ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ด์šฉ ๋น„์šฉ์ด ์ €๋ ดํ•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด๋‹ค.

This historic park, particularly its golf course, captured President Donald Trump's attention.

์ด ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ณต์›, ํŠนํžˆ ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์€ ๋„๋„๋“œ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๊ด€์‹ฌ์„ ๋Œ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

He aspires to transform it into a world-class golf facility.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ์„ ์„ธ๊ณ„์  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ ์ž ํ•œ๋‹ค.

This forms part of his sweeping vision for Washington, D.C., where he has demolished historic structures, renovated or renamed others, and stationed National Guard troops for over a year.

์ด๋Š” ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ํ—ˆ๋ฌผ๊ณ , ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ๊ฐœ์กฐํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๊ณ , 1๋…„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์ฃผ ๋ฐฉ์œ„๊ตฐ์„ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ•œ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด D.C.์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ทธ์˜ ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊ตฌ์ƒ์˜ ์ผ๋ถ€๋‹ค.

However, some residents fear that Trump's plans to overhaul the golf course, which he visited accompanied by cabinet members, a renowned golf course architect, and blueprints in hand, risk altering the identity of a space that has served a diverse array of Washingtonians for over a century.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ๋ฃŒ, ์ €๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ณจํ”„ ์ฝ”์Šค ์„ค๊ณ„์ž, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ฒญ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ง€์ฐธํ•œ ์ฑ„ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•œ ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์˜ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ ๊ณ„ํš์ด ํ•œ ์„ธ๊ธฐ ์ด์ƒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ด‰์‚ฌํ•ด ์˜จ ์ด ๊ณต๊ฐ„์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ€ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ คํ•œ๋‹ค.

Residents worry that converting the park into an upscale golf course will drive up usage fees and result in the loss of public space.

์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ๊ณต์›์„ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊พธ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์ด์šฉ ์š”๊ธˆ์„ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ณต๊ณต ๊ณต๊ฐ„์„ ์žƒ๊ฒŒ ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค.

"This goes beyond erasing the history of the Links here; it deprives everyone of a place where they can easily gain access and play at a reasonable price," said Joe Polley.

"์ด๋Š” ์ด๊ณณ ๋งํฌ์Šค์˜ ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ง€์šฐ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ๋ชจ๋“  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์‰ฝ๊ฒŒ ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜์—ฌ ํ•ฉ๋ฆฌ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฅ์†Œ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ•ํƒˆํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ์กฐ ํด๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He added that he was in his seventies and had just completed a nine-hole round for $36, including the cart.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์ด 70๋Œ€์ด๋ฉฐ ์นดํŠธ๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•ด 36๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ์— 9ํ™€ ๋ผ์šด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋ง‰ ๋งˆ์ณค๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

East Potomac Park, which encompasses the East Potomac Golf Links, was established by an act of Congress in 1897 and laid out for 'the rest and enjoyment of the people.'

์ด์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ† ๋งฅ ๊ณจํ”„ ๋งํฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ† ๋งฅ ๊ณต์›์€ 1897๋…„ ์˜ํšŒ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์— ์˜ํ•ด ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, '์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ํœด์‹๊ณผ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€'์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กฐ์„ฑ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The golf course opened in 1919.

๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์€ 1919๋…„์— ๊ฐœ์žฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Trump is advancing several projects in Washington, including a $400 million White House ballroom and a triumphal arch slated to break ground soon, and by late 2025 he had begun discussions regarding the city's public golf course.

ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์—์„œ 4์–ต ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ๋ฐฑ์•…๊ด€ ๋ณผ๋ฃธ๊ณผ ๊ณง ์ฐฉ๊ณตํ•  ๊ฐœ์„ ๋ฌธ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ๋ฅผ ์ถ”์ง„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 2025๋…„ ๋ง์—๋Š” ์ด ๋„์‹œ์˜ ๊ณต๊ณต ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๋…ผ์˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Debris from the demolition of the White House's East Wing two months ago was buried along the East Potomac, and a mound three stories high has been formed near one of the three golf courses there, remaining to this day.

๋‘ ๋‹ฌ ์ „ ๋ฐฑ์•…๊ด€ ๋™๊ด€ ์ฒ ๊ฑฐ๋กœ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•œ ์ž”ํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ† ๋งฅ์— ๋งค๋ฆฝ๋˜์—ˆ๊ณ , ๊ทธ์ค‘ ์„ธ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ธ๊ทผ์—๋Š” 3์ธต ๋†’์ด์˜ ๋‘”๋•์ด ํ˜•์„ฑ๋˜์–ด ํ˜„์žฌ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The National Park Service has confirmed that toxic metals such as lead and chromium were detected in the debris.

๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์›๊ด€๋ฆฌ์ฒญ์€ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ž”ํ•ด์—์„œ ๋‚ฉ, ํฌ๋กฌ ๋“ฑ ์œ ๋…์„ฑ ๊ธˆ์†์ด ๊ฒ€์ถœ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์„ ํ™•์ธํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"Once this golf course is completed, it will be capable of hosting the U.S. Open, the Ryder Cup, the PGA Championship, and other top-tier PGA Tour events," Trump posted on social media in June.

"์ด ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์ด ์™„๊ณต๋˜๋ฉด US ์˜คํ”ˆ, ๋ผ์ด๋” ์ปต, PGA ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์‹ญ ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ PGA ํˆฌ์–ด ๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ตœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋  ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„๋Š” 6์›” ์†Œ์…œ ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์— ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He stated at the time that work was scheduled to commence on September 1, yet this week no signs of activity have been detected on the site whatsoever.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋‹น์‹œ ์ž‘์—…์ด 9์›” 1์ผ์— ์‹œ์ž‘๋  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”์œผ๋‚˜, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ์—๋Š” ๋ถ€์ง€์—์„œ ์ž‘์—… ํ™œ๋™์˜ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์ „ํ˜€ ํฌ์ฐฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.

Images released in May by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum depicted an 18-hole course and promised to offer 'championship-caliber golf at affordable, deeply discounted rates.'

5์›”์— ๋”๊ทธ ๋ฒ„๊ฒ€ ๋‚ด๋ฌด๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์ด ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•œ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€๋Š” 18ํ™€ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ์ฝ”์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, '์ €๋ ดํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ€ํญ ํ• ์ธ๋œ ์š”๊ธˆ์œผ๋กœ ์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์‹ญ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ณจํ”„'๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๊ฒ ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

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The lawsuit opposing the golf course renovation contends that the Trump administration's redevelopment would contravene the congressional legislation that authorized the park's establishment.

๊ณจํ”„์žฅ ๊ฐœ์กฐ์— ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ์†ก์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์žฌ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์ด ๊ณต์› ์„ค๋ฆฝ์„ ์Šน์ธํ•œ ์˜ํšŒ ๋ฒ•์•ˆ์„ ์œ„๋ฐ˜ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

The government counters that the plaintiffs lack the legal standing to bring the case.

์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์›๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์†ก์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•  ๋ฒ•์  ์ž๊ฒฉ์ด ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜๋ฐ•ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Those who spoke with reporters in the park noted that in some of Trump's other Washington projects, the administration has outpaced the judiciary's response, pushing through irreversible changes.

๊ณต์›์—์„œ ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค๊ณผ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•œ ์ด๋“ค์€ ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ์ค‘ ์ผ๋ถ€์—์„œ ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ฒ•๋ถ€์˜ ๋Œ€์‘ ์†๋„๋ฅผ ์•ž์ง€๋ฅด๋ฉฐ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฐ•ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"The government appears to be adhering to divergent regulations at present, or perhaps not adhering to any at all," remarked Jason Levitt, 54, as he concluded an hour-long high-speed cycling session.

"์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ํ˜„์žฌ ์ƒ์ดํ•œ ๊ทœ์ •์„ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๊ฑฐ๋‚˜, ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ „ํ˜€ ๋”ฐ๋ฅด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  54์„ธ์˜ ์ œ์ด์Šจ ๋ ˆ๋น—์ด ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๊ฑธ์นœ ๊ณ ์† ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ์ฃผํ–‰์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๋ฉฐ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

At Thursday's court hearing concerning the park, U.S. District Judge Anna Reyes echoed a similar sentiment, telling the government's attorney that she understood the plaintiffs' concerns about changes being made before proper approval was granted, but adding that she had found no such evidence in the golf course case.

๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ๊ณต์› ๊ด€๋ จ ๋ฒ•์ • ์‹ฌ๋ฆฌ์—์„œ ์• ๋‚˜ ๋ ˆ์˜ˆ์Šค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ง€๋ฐฉ ํŒ์‚ฌ๋„ ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ๊ฒฌํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐํžˆ๋ฉฐ, ์ •๋ถ€ ์ธก ๋ณ€ํ˜ธ์‚ฌ์—๊ฒŒ ์›๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์ ์ ˆํ•œ ์Šน์ธ์„ ๋ฐ›๊ธฐ ์ „์— ๋ณ€๊ฒฝ์ด ์ด๋ฃจ์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด์—์„œ๋Š” ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

The administration has already removed dozens of mature trees from the park grounds, yet it maintains that this was part of routine maintenance procedures.

ํ–‰์ •๋ถ€๋Š” ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ณต์› ๋ถ€์ง€์—์„œ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ์˜ ๊ต๋ชฉ์„ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ์ด๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์ ์ธ ์œ ์ง€ ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์ ˆ์ฐจ์˜ ์ผํ™˜์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ฃผ์žฅํ•œ๋‹ค.

During this week's visit, the park drew in cyclists, retirees, lunchtime office workers, and a few figures who declined to speak with reportersโ€”individuals who, despite being expected at their workplaces, had nonetheless sought out the links for an afternoon of leisure.

์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ์—์„œ ๊ณต์›์€ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ์ด์šฉ์ž, ์€ํ‡ด์ž, ์ ์‹ฌ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ง์žฅ์ธ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ž์™€์˜ ๋Œ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•œ ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“คโ€”์ง์žฅ์— ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•จ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜คํ›„์˜ ์—ฌ๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋งํฌ์Šค๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์€ ์ด๋“คโ€”์„ ๋Œ์–ด๋ชจ์•˜๋‹ค.

As storm clouds gathered and visitors hurried toward the clubhouse, the diverse racial composition was plainly evident: male and female golfers, Black, Hispanic, and white.

๋จน๊ตฌ๋ฆ„์ด ๋ชฐ๋ ค์˜ค๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํด๋Ÿฝํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋กœ ์„œ๋‘๋ฅด๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์ธ์ข… ๊ตฌ์„ฑ์ด ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๋‚ฌ๋‹ค: ๋‚จ์„ฑ, ์—ฌ์„ฑ, ํ‘์ธ, ํžˆ์ŠคํŒจ๋‹‰, ๋ฐฑ์ธ ๊ณจํผ๋“ค.

They cited the park's location, cost, and history as the reasons for their visit.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ด๊ณณ์„ ์ฐพ์€ ์ด์œ ๋กœ ๊ณต์›์˜ ์œ„์น˜, ๋น„์šฉ, ์—ญ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ผฝ์•˜๋‹ค.

They were aware that the parks and golf courses they knew might be dwindling in number.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ์ž์‹ ๋“ค์ด ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ณต์›๊ณผ ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์ด ์–ผ๋งˆ ๋‚จ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Paul, a retired lobbyist, expressed concern over the president's proposal, noting that the area already boasts a considerable number of 'championship-caliber courses.'

์€ํ‡ดํ•œ ๋กœ๋น„์ŠคํŠธ์ธ ํด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ด ์ง€์—ญ์— ์ด๋ฏธ '์ฑ”ํ”ผ์–ธ์‹ญ ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ์ฝ”์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋‹น์ˆ˜ ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค'๋ฉฐ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น์˜ ๊ตฌ์ƒ์— ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"No one can predict what course of action he will take.

"์•„๋ฌด๋„ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋–ค ํ–‰๋ณด๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ผ์ง€ ์˜ˆ์ธกํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Could even the bicycle paths, so beloved by so many, be under threat?

๊ทธํ† ๋ก ๋งŽ์€ ์ด๋“ค์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘์„ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ๋„๋กœ์กฐ์ฐจ๋„ ์œ„ํ˜‘๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ผ๊นŒ์š”?

Take a look at the number of cyclists passing through Potomac Park and the golf course area at noon on Wednesday," he said.

์ˆ˜์š”์ผ ์ •์˜ค์— ํฌํ† ๋งฅ ๊ณต์›๊ณผ ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ ๊ตฌ์—ญ์„ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ์ด์šฉ๊ฐ๋“ค์˜ ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์‚ดํŽด๋ณด์‹ญ์‹œ์˜ค,"๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Š” ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Leavitt, an avid cyclist, has been visiting this park for two decades and reportedly rides his bike about four times a week.

์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ์• ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ ˆ๋น—์€ 20๋…„ ๋™์•ˆ ์ด ๊ณต์›์„ ์ฐพ์•„์™”์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ์— ์•ฝ ๋„ค ๋ฒˆ์”ฉ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํƒ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

This road, which loops in a single direction along the park's perimeter, sits in the heart of the city, yet it is regarded as an ideal spot for safe cycling away from typical urban traffic.

๊ณต์› ๊ฐ€์žฅ์ž๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ํ•œ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ˆœํ™˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด ๋„๋กœ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ ํ•œ๋ณตํŒ์— ์ž๋ฆฌ ์žก๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋„์‹œ ๊ตํ†ต์„ ํ”ผํ•ด ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ์— ์ข‹์€ ๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๊ผฝํžŒ๋‹ค.

This area is regarded as relatively safe, allowing one to avoid traffic and all other elements.

์ด ์ง€์—ญ์€ ๋น„๊ต์  ์•ˆ์ „ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ„์ฃผ๋˜์–ด, ๊ตํ†ต ๋ฐ ๊ธฐํƒ€ ๋ชจ๋“  ์š”์†Œ๋ฅผ ํšŒํ”ผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

He emphasized that change was imminent.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ž„๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ์Œ์„ ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"I can only hope that this change will lead in a direction beneficial to all.

"๊ทธ ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋‘์—๊ฒŒ ์ด๋กœ์šด ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ž„ ๋ฟ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Rather than being tailored to a specific type of golfer, I hope it becomes a change from which everyone can benefit."

ํŠน์ • ์œ ํ˜•์˜ ๊ณจํผ๋งŒ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ, ๋ชจ๋‘๊ฐ€ ํ˜œํƒ์„ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณ€ํ™”๊ฐ€ ๋˜๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๋งํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

Washington has long operated at the behest of the federal government.

์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์€ ์˜ค๋žœ ์„ธ์›” ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ •๋ถ€์˜ ์˜์ง€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ์›€์ง์—ฌ ์™”๋‹ค.

Congress retains considerable authority over municipal affairs, encompassing budget approval and all legislation passed by the D.C. Council.

์˜ํšŒ๋Š” ์˜ˆ์‚ฐ ์Šน์ธ๊ณผ D.C. ์˜ํšŒ๊ฐ€ ํ†ต๊ณผ์‹œํ‚จ ๋ชจ๋“  ๋ฒ•๋ฅ ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•˜์—ฌ ๋„์‹œ ๋ฌธ์ œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์ƒ๋‹นํ•œ ํ†ต์ œ๊ถŒ์„ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The Home Rule Act of 1973 empowered residents to elect their mayor, city council, and district commissioners.

1973๋…„ ์ž์น˜๋ฒ•(Home Rule Act)์œผ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์€ ์‹œ์žฅ, ์‹œ์˜ํšŒ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ตฌ์—ญ ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์„ ์ถœํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

That autonomy was further eroded under Trump's administration.

๊ทธ ์ž์น˜๋Š” ํŠธ๋Ÿผํ”„ ์ง‘๊ถŒ ํ•˜์— ๋”์šฑ ์œ„์ถ•๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Last year, he began to intensify law enforcement in the city, placing the local police temporarily under federal jurisdiction and deploying the National Guard until 2029.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์ž‘๋…„์— ์‹œ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ฒ• ์ง‘ํ–‰์„ ๊ฐ•ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ง€์—ญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์„ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ ๊ด€ํ•  ํ•˜์— ๋‘๊ณ  2029๋…„๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฃผ ๋ฐฉ์œ„๊ตฐ์„ ๋ฐฐ์น˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

His influence over the city has extended not only to iconic landmarks and tourist attractions but also to spaces frequented by local residents, such as East Potomac Park.

๊ทธ์˜ ๋„์‹œ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์˜ํ–ฅ๋ ฅ์€ ์ƒ์ง•์ ์ธ ๋žœ๋“œ๋งˆํฌ์™€ ๊ด€๊ด‘ ๋ช…์†Œ๋ฟ๋งŒ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ† ๋งฅ ๊ณต์›์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ง€์—ญ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ์ž์ฃผ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ณต๊ฐ„์—๋„ ํŒŒ๊ธ‰๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Mayor Muriel Bowser, who is about to leave office, emphasized this week that "our city has the capacity to host a world-class golf tournament."

ํ‡ด์ž„์„ ์•ž๋‘” ๋ฎค๋ฆฌ์–ผ ๋ฐ”์šฐ์ € ์‹œ์žฅ์€ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์„ธ๊ณ„์  ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๊ณจํ”„ ๋Œ€ํšŒ๋ฅผ ์œ ์น˜ํ•  ์—ญ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ฐ–์ถ”๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

However, after the event that leveraged sports to draw visitors to the capital had concluded, she remarked to reporters, "We still need public accessibility."

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์Šคํฌ์ธ ๋ฅผ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋“ค์„ ์ˆ˜๋„๋กœ ์œ ์น˜ํ•œ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋๋‚œ ๋’ค, ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ณต๊ณต์˜ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Ryan Bates, 44, said he only took up golf as an adult and has been coming to this park every week for three and a half years.

44์„ธ์˜ ๋ผ์ด์–ธ ๋ฒ ์ด์ธ ๋Š” ์„ฑ์ธ์ด ๋œ ํ›„์—์•ผ ๊ณจํ”„๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, 3๋…„ ๋ฐ˜ ๋™์•ˆ ๋งค์ฃผ ์ด ๊ณต์›์„ ์ฐพ์•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He mentioned that although he holds a membership at a private club, he prefers playing golf at East Potomac due to its convenient location.

๊ทธ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์„ค ํด๋Ÿฝ ํšŒ์›๊ถŒ์„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ฑ์ด ์ข‹์€ ์œ„์น˜ ๋•๋ถ„์— ์ด์ŠคํŠธ ํฌํ† ๋งฅ์—์„œ ๊ณจํ”„๋ฅผ ์น˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋” ์„ ํ˜ธํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"The most important principle," he said, tidying up his clubs after finishing the round.

"๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์›์น™์€," ๋ผ์šด๋“œ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  ํด๋Ÿฝ์„ ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ทธ๊ฐ€ ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

"is that golf should be a game accessible to people from all walks of life."

"๊ณจํ”„๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ณ„์ธต์˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์ ‘๊ทผํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ์ž„์ด์–ด์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค."

September 5th, 2026

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