Grand National (Links)

The longest of the three courses on the RTJ Golf Trail at Grand National, the Links layout can be stretched to 7,311 yards and some think this well-manicured course is the best on the entire Trail. Certainly, the water-laden par four 18th is one of the strongest finishing holes on any of the twenty-six member courses across the state of Alabama.

The Links course doesn’t quite play as firm and fast as its name might suggest. Instead, it requires a decent aerial game to manoeuvre the golf ball around tree-lined fairways, where water and wetland areas come into play occasionally, and there are several holes with significant elevation changes.

Notable holes include the left doglegged par four 4th, where the fairway wraps itself around the waters of Lake Saugahatchee, the par three 9th, which is played to a 150-foot long peninsula green, and the solid par five 12th, with its fairway narrowing at it approaches a sand-protected green.