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DRIVING & DRIVING; TAKE A GOLF ROAD TRIP IN ALABAMA.(NEWS)
Byline: ROGER HART
For some, Spring Break means lounging on the beach. For others, the last thing they want is sandif it's the kind you find in a golf-course bunker.
A Spring Break golfing trip can be therapeutic for hackers who have suffered through winter in the northern climes. Call it a reward for once again staring down Mother Nature's frigid worst. Plus, a week or so on the golf course can jump-start your game for the coming season.
Numerous golf resorts offer great play, but we wanted a golf road tripthe chance to combine top-notch courses with top-notch roads in between. We found the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in Alabama.
The "trail runs nearly the length of the state and features 11 locations, 26 courses and 369 championship golf holes (468 holes if you count par-three and short courses). All but two of the public courses, funded by the Retirement Systems of Alabama, were designed in the early 1990s by famed golf-course architect Robert Trent Jones Sr.; a couple were finished by his company after his death at age 94 in 2000.
While Jones was renowned for building and rebuilding some of the top courses in the worldincluding Augusta National, home to the ...
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- Newspaper article from: Burlington County Times September 13, 2008 700+ words
BELL MICRO CLASSIC At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Magnolia Grove, The Crossings, Mobile, Ala. Purse: $1.4 million Yardage: 6,253; Par: 72 Second Round Cristie Kerr69...
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- Newspaper article from: Burlington County Times September 27, 2008 700+ words
NAVISTAR CLASSIC At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, Prattville, Ala. Purse: $1.4 million Yardage: 6,571; Par: 72 Second Round Janice Moodie66-67--133 Lorena Ochoa67...
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REGIONS CHARITY CLASSIC Yesterday At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge Hoover, Ala. Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 7,503Par: 72 (36-36) Second Round Andy Bean65-68--133...
- The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.(NEWS)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek April 6, 2009 700+ words
1 The Shoals, Muscle Shoals, 36 holes 2 Hampton Cove, Huntsville, 36 holes 3 Oxmoor Valley, Birmingham, 36 holes 4 Silver Lakes, Anniston/Gadsden, 27 holes 5 Ross Bridge, Hoover, 18 holes 6 Capitol Hill, Prattville, 54 holes 7 Grand National, Opelika, 36 holes 8 Cambrian Ridge, Greenville, 27 holes
- GOLF WITH THE WIND; Alabama's Robert Trent Jones Trail offers frostbitten...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Zgoda, Jerry November 12, 2000 700+ words
...early spring calling of Alabama and the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail: a collection of eight public complexes that stretch...the golf courses, which esteemed architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. came out of semiretirement at age 84 to create...
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- Newspaper article from: Burlington County Times September 14, 2008 700+ words
BELL MICRO CLASSIC Yesterday Third Round At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail-Magnolia Grove, The Crossings Mobile, Ala. Purse: $1.4 million Yardage: 6,253Par: 72 Angela Stanford70-67-67...
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- Newspaper article from: Burlington County Times September 15, 2008 700+ words
LPGA BELL MICRO CLASSIC Yesterday Final Round At Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail-Magnolia Grove, The Crossings Mobile, Ala. Purse: $1.4 million Yardage: 6,253Par: 72 Angela Stanford, $210,00070...
- Magnolia Golf Trail gaining national recognition.(Focus Golf)
- Magazine article from: Mississippi Business Journal Jeter, Lynne April 19, 2004 700+ words
...spending via the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, which links eight golf...golf route. "The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has made Alabama a top 10...Besides, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail was not built for the average...
