Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail – Alabama

The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is a stunning series of golf facilities built across the state of Alabama – and is fast becoming one of America’s hottest new golf hotbeds.

Friends and I paid a visit to Alabama in December 2005 – here are some of the highlights of our trip.

We flew into Atlanta and drove over the Alabama/Georgia border to Auburn (the home of the Auburn Tigers)

On Day one we played the lovely Grand National – a 54-hole facility with 2 championship courses and a full 18-hole short course (all RTJ Trail facilities have great short courses).

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Grand National Lakes Course – 16th hole (above)

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Grand National Lakes – 15th hole

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Grand National Lakes – 12th hole

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5th hole on the Lakes course

Next we moved on to Prattville Alabama and the highly touted Capital Hill. We had to pay a small upgrade to play ‘The Judge’, their new signature course. Plenty of water, plenty of open space. A really good course, but kind of quirky at times (see the poorly executed 18th hole).

The first hole below is a stunner though.

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The big surprise of our trip was the next course we visited – Oxmoor Valley. Both the Valley course and Ridge course where wonderful. Challenging, lots of elevation change and some really great holes.

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We got rained out the last day of our trip at Silver Lakes (Mindbreaker course), but all in all was a great trip. The temperatures in the 1st week of December were disappointingly chilly, but it was warmer than at home here in Toronto.

If you are looking for a different destination for your next trip, discover the Robert Trent Jones golf trail for yourself.

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