The Links Course at RTJ Trail Grand National – Links in name only, but a worthy challenge

Our final 18 holes of our two-day whirlwind trip along the Alabama Robert Trent Jones Trail was the Links Course at Grand National in Opelika, Alabama on a Tuesday afternoon.  We basically had the course to ourselves, as no one else was dumb enough to play golf in 95-plus degree heat with 90% humidity in…

RTJ Trail’s Grand National Lake Course – A PGA Tour level experience

Playing Grand National’s Lake Course on the Alabama Robert Trent Jones Trail one week after the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship was contested on the course was a rare treat for our group.  It is probably as close as we hacks will get to competing on a venue set up to host some of the highest…