A dozen of the Lake course fairways at Grand National are laid out around the shores of Lake Saugahatchee and one of those holes is regarded by some as the finest par thee in Alabama’s RTJ Golf Trail.
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A dozen of the Lake course fairways at Grand National are laid out around the shores of Lake Saugahatchee and one of those holes is regarded by some as the finest par thee in Alabama’s RTJ Golf Trail.
Grand National (Lake)
The 7,149-yard Lake course on the RTJ Golf Trail at Grand National features a dozen holes that skirt the banks of Lake Saugahatchee. The 230-yard par three 15th plays to an island green and is perhaps the best one-shot hole on the RTJ Golf Trail.
In 1997, the Lake Course played host to what is now the Web.com Tour Championship, the season-ending tournament for the PGA Tour’s Web.com Tour and this event has also been held at RTJ Golf Trail courses in Mobile (1998), Dothan (1999-2000) and Prattville (2001-2005).
The Lake course also hosted the first edition of the Barbasol Championship in 2015, played as an alternative event for the Open Championship. The winner doesn’t earn an invitation to the Masters but they do receive a two-year PGA Tour exemption and entry to the USPGA Championship event.
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