- Hampton Cove · Huntsville
3 courses · 54 holes — Mountain + valley layouts 15 minutes from downtown Huntsville - The Shoals · Muscle Shoals
2 courses · 36 holes — Fighting Joe and Schoolmaster on the Tennessee River end - Silver Lakes · Anniston / Gadsden
4 courses · 36 holes — Mindbreaker / Heartbreaker / Backbreaker short-course cluster
Golf trail
Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is the most ambitious public-golf project ever built — eleven sites of championship layouts strung across the state, all playable without a membership.
Why do it
A state-spanning collection of championship public golf.
Nowhere else can you play this much big-name design for this little, all on one road trip. The Trail practically invented destination public golf.
Route & course map
How the RTJ Golf Trail lays out on the ground.
Eleven Trail sites across Alabama — read north to south as a driveable course map
- Oxmoor Valley · Birmingham
3 courses · 45 holes — Ridge, Valley, and The Back Yard par-3 in the city - Ross Bridge · Hoover
1 course · 18 holes — Resort monster beside the Renaissance; paired with Oxmoor - Grand National · Auburn / Opelika
3 courses · 54 holes — Links, Lake, and Short — classic value destination - Capitol Hill · Prattville (Montgomery)
3 courses · 54 holes — Judge, Senator, and Legislator above the capital - Cambrian Ridge · Greenville
3 courses · 27 holes — Canyon, Sherling, and Loblolly ~55 minutes south of Capitol Hill
- Highland Oaks · Dothan
4 courses · 36 holes — Magnolia, Highlands, Marshwood, and Pinks short course - Magnolia Grove · Mobile
3 courses · 54 holes — Crossings, Falls, and Short — LPGA host on the Gulf approach - Lakewood Club · Point Clear
2 courses · 36 holes — Azalea and Dogwood at the historic Grand Hotel end of the Trail
Drive times between clusters
- Birmingham cluster: Oxmoor Valley ↔ Ross Bridge is about 2 miles / 5 minutes — easy same-day double.
- Gulf end: Magnolia Grove (Mobile) ↔ Lakewood Club (Point Clear) is about 42 miles / under an hour.
- Huntsville (Hampton Cove) to Muscle Shoals (The Shoals) is about 76 miles / 1½ hours.
- Cross-state north–south (Hampton Cove → Magnolia Grove) is a full travel day (~5+ hours) — treat as multi-day, not a one-loop day.
checked August 2026 · RTJ Golf — Explore the Trail (official sites + distance matrix)
The essential stops
Where to stop on the RTJ Golf Trail.
01Capitol Hillthree courses incl. the brutal Senator, near MontgomeryAL02Grand NationalAuburn/Opelika — routinely called the best value in golfAL03Ross Bridgeone of the longest courses in the world, in HooverAL04The Shoalsthe Fighting Joe — the Trail’s first 8,000-yard courseAL05Oxmoor Valleymountain golf in the heart of BirminghamAL06Magnolia Grovean LPGA host near Mobile, on the Gulf endAL
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