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Grand National Lake Course, Opelika, AL
The Grand National Lake course opens with a beautifully designed par 4 dogleg left that brings all the Robert Trent Jones elements into play -- sand, water, and an elevated, sloping green. A...
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Impressive par 5 gives taste of Silver Lakes
Silver Lakes provides some helpful advice to visiting golfers before they tee off on #1. It is an occupational hazard that I only have time to play most courses just once before I am on to the...
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Impressive par 5 gives taste of Jones' Silver Lakes
Silver Lakes provides some helpful advice to visiting golfers before they tee off on #1. It is an occupational hazard that I only have time to play most courses just once before I am on to the...
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Jones Trail course leaves me breathless
The view from the first tee box at the Ridge Course provides a sense of the roller coaster day to come. Review: Oxmoor Valley Ridge Course I am glad I left Oxmoor Valley's Ridge Course for last...
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Sweet Home Alabama: Big discounts for Jones Trail Card holders
The Oxmoor Valley course on the Robert Trent Jones Trail is one of the few with some housing within view of the course. Above is the unique par 4 12th hole with a double fairway separated by a large...
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Happy (Jones) Trail to you, for just $199,000 and up
You could make an argument that the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail was way ahead of its time. It was the first major golf project funded by a state pension program, in this case Alabama's...
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Sweet Home (of golf) Alabama
Yesterday, we shared the comments and photos of one of our readers, John Hangen of Maine, who reported on his and wife Ann's visit to the Stonewall Resort in West Virginia. The piece...
View ArticleCheap thrills: $38 event for seniors on RT Jones Trail
If you and a golfing buddy or spouse are 50 or older and have thought about trying out the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama, a mid-December event could be just the encouragement you...
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Golf Course Review: Wynlakes Golf and Country Club, Montgomery, AL
by Tim Gavrich Each private club takes on a different atmosphere, its own separate character. Some are strict golf clubs and are demure, out-of-the-way operations that the outside world...
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Bad barbecue, bad seafood mark two days in Alabama
This will be a fairly short article, given that I don't want to depress myself any more than two dinners depressed me the last two days. Sometimes you have no choice but to rely on the comments...
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Grand National Lake Course, Opelika, AL
The Grand National Lake course opens with a beautifully designed par 4 dogleg left that brings all the Robert Trent Jones elements into play -- sand, water, and an elevated, sloping green. A...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Impressive par 5 gives taste of Silver Lakes
Silver Lakes provides some helpful advice to visiting golfers before they tee off on #1. It is an occupational hazard that I only have time to play most courses just once before I am on to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Impressive par 5 gives taste of Jones' Silver Lakes
Silver Lakes provides some helpful advice to visiting golfers before they tee off on #1. It is an occupational hazard that I only have time to play most courses just once before I am on to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jones Trail course leaves me breathless
The view from the first tee box at the Ridge Course provides a sense of the roller coaster day to come. Review: Oxmoor Valley Ridge Course I am glad I left Oxmoor Valley's Ridge Course for last...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sweet Home Alabama: Big discounts for Jones Trail Card holders
The Oxmoor Valley course on the Robert Trent Jones Trail is one of the few with some housing within view of the course. Above is the unique par 4 12th hole with a double fairway separated by a large...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Happy (Jones) Trail to you, for just $199,000 and up
You could make an argument that the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail was way ahead of its time. It was the first major golf project funded by a state pension program, in this case Alabama's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sweet Home (of golf) Alabama
Yesterday, we shared the comments and photos of one of our readers, John Hangen of Maine, who reported on his and wife Ann's visit to the Stonewall Resort in West Virginia. The piece...
View ArticleCheap thrills: $38 event for seniors on RT Jones Trail
If you and a golfing buddy or spouse are 50 or older and have thought about trying out the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama, a mid-December event could be just the encouragement you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Golf Course Review: Wynlakes Golf and Country Club, Montgomery, AL
by Tim Gavrich Each private club takes on a different atmosphere, its own separate character. Some are strict golf clubs and are demure, out-of-the-way operations that the outside world...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bad barbecue, bad seafood mark two days in Alabama
This will be a fairly short article, given that I don't want to depress myself any more than two dinners depressed me the last two days. Sometimes you have no choice but to rely on the comments...
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