A man railing against US President Donald Trump opened fire in one of the Republican's Florida golf resorts early on Friday, exchanging gunshots with Miami police who wounded and arrested him, officials said.

Neither Trump nor any of his immediate family members were at the Trump National Doral Golf Club at the time, according to the Secret Service. The golf club is located about 70 miles south of the Palm Beach resort that Trump has visited regularly during his term.

The man "was trying to lure our officers ... into this gunfight. He did succeed, and he did lose. That's the bottom line," Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez said at a news briefing, adding it was not clear what motivated his actions.

The man lowered a flag that was flying outside the Miami-area club, went into the lobby at about 1:30 am EDT and draped it over the counter. He then pointed a gun at people in the lobby, fired at the ceiling and a chandelier and waited to attack responding police, Perez said.

The gunman, identified as Jonathan Oddi, 42, of Doral, was shouting anti-Trump remarks during the incident, Perez said. He said he did not know specifically what Oddi had said.

Police shot Oddi multiple times in the legs and took him into custody, and he was in a hospital in stable condition.

REUTERS