Robert Trent Jones Sr.

MO · St. Louis · Private · Par 72

Jones built Bellerive as a championship stage, and it has hosted US Opens and PGA Championships, including Brooks Koepka's 2018 win. A long, demanding St. Louis classic.

MN · Chaska · Private · Par 72

A Jones design built expressly to host majors, and it has delivered US Opens, PGA Championships, and the 2016 Ryder Cup. The doglegging 16th around Lake Hazeltine is a championship classic.

GA · Atlanta · Private · Par 72

Jones collaborated with the legendary Bobby Jones on this ultra-private Atlanta club, a deliberate modern answer to Augusta. Big greens and big tees made it a template for the postwar championship course.

VA · Gainesville · Private · Par 72

The course Jones lent his own name to, this lakeside Virginia club hosted the dramatic 1994 Presidents Cup. An exclusive, water-laced layout near Washington, D.C.

HI · Kohala Coast · Resort · Par 72

Jones transformed a barren lava field into a Big Island classic, anchored by the famous par-3 3rd that carries a Pacific cove. One of Hawaii's most photographed and revered courses.

OH · Akron · Private · Par 70

Jones toughened Firestone South into a championship beast that hosted PGA Championships and decades of WGC play. The par-5 16th, the Monster, has drowned many a contender.

SC · Myrtle Beach · Private · Par 72

Jones's famous par-5 13th, Waterloo, sweeps around Singleton Swash in a long dogleg that defined his heroic school of design. The crown jewel of Myrtle Beach golf and a Senior Tour host.

NY · Ithaca · Public · Par 71

One of Jones's earliest designs, draped across the steep hills above Cornell's campus. A scenic, quirky public course with genuine historical pedigree.

NC · Clemmons · Public · Par 72

A genuine rarity: a public, county-park Jones course that hosted the 1974 PGA Championship and a US Senior Open. Rugged bunkering and real championship history at an everyman price.

CA · Pebble Beach · Resort · Par 72

A Trent Jones Sr. test that opens in seaside dunes before plunging into the Del Monte forest, one of the hardest courses you can simply pay to play. Treasure Island themed and relentlessly demanding.

AL · Prattville · Public · Par 72

The crown jewel of the RTJ Trail opens with a tee shot that plummets eighty feet to the fairway below. Long, dramatic, and built to test anyone who walks up.

AL · Prattville · Public · Par 72

An open, windswept links with bunkers tall enough to swallow you whole, and home each September to a pro tour event. Different world from The Judge next door.

AL · Opelika · Public · Par 72

Wrapped around 600-acre Lake Saugahatchee, with twelve holes touching water and an island-green par-3 that's pure heart-in-throat. Voted the best public golf value in America for a reason.

AL · Opelika · Public · Par 72

The Lake Course gets the postcards, but the Links has hosted PGA and LPGA fields and plays every bit as tough at 7,400 yards. Water and elevation around every corner.

AL · Hoover · Resort · Par 72

Stretching past 9,000 yards from the tips, this resort showpiece tumbles down to an 80-foot waterfall between the 9th and 18th greens. The most luxurious stop on the Trail.

MI · Harbor Springs · Resort · Par 72

A 1966 Robert Trent Jones Sr. design that started Boyne's whole northern-Michigan golf empire. Classic, mature, and welcoming.

MI · Gaylord · Resort · Par 71

Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s dramatic, plunging design is the one that put northern Michigan golf on the map. Part of an 81-hole resort, but this is the headliner.

TX · Horseshoe Bay · Resort · Par 72

The prettiest of the Horseshoe Bay three, with sweeping Hill Country views and a back nine running along the shore of Lake LBJ. Save your camera for the closing stretch.

TX · Horseshoe Bay · Resort · Par 71

Narrow, rocky, and full of teeth, including a demanding island-green par-3. Ram Rock is one of the toughest resort courses in Texas, the challenger of the three.

TX · Horseshoe Bay · Resort · Par 72

The most playable of Horseshoe Bay's trio, a 1973 Robert Trent Jones Sr. layout with seventy-plus bunkers and his trademark easy bogey, hard par feel. A relaxed Hill Country start.

AZ · Sedona · Public · Par 72

A classic parkland course threading the junipers with red-rock views in every direction. Semi-private but happy to give visitors a tee time.

AL · Owens Cross Roads · Public · Par 72

An open links emulation with no trees lining the fairways, just outside Huntsville. The facility's River Course nearby is famously the only RTJ design without a single bunker.

AL · Mobile · Public · Par 72

The Trail's southernmost stop, a classic parkland layout that's hosted LPGA and Korn Ferry championships near the Gulf Coast. Great golf without the premium sting.

AL · Birmingham · Public · Par 72

Built on former US Steel ground with 150-foot elevation swings and fairways that pitch and roll through heavy timber, all minutes from downtown Birmingham. Photogenic and a little dizzying.

AL · Muscle Shoals · Public · Par 72

An open Scottish-style giant stretched along the Tennessee River between two dams, the first RTJ Trail course to break the 8,000-yard mark. Big sky, big swings.

AZ · Litchfield Park · Resort · Par 72

A long, stately Robert Trent Jones Sr. course at a resort that has welcomed golfers since 1929. Old-school parkland golf with grand trees and a sense of history rare in the desert.

IN · Columbus · Public · Par 72

A 27-hole Robert Trent Jones Sr. design that has hosted USGA events, all at a friendly public price. Quietly one of the state's best.