Alabama Course Reviews
The Arnold Palmer that started Alabama Gulf Shores golf, Craft Farms still shows its love for golfers
Arnold Palmer single-handedly made the Alabama Gulf Shores a golf destination by designing two excellent courses at Craft Farms. You don't go on a golf vacation for a history lesson, though. Craft Farms succeeds today because it recognizes its history while concerning itself with the product golfers are experiencing now. It's a well-run operation that's never lost its passion for golf and the people who play the game for fun.
... full article »Banking on golf fun: Rock Creek G.C. an Alabama Gulf Shores blast
If you play golf to enjoy yourself, you'll want to work Rock Creek Golf Club into an Alabama Gulf Shores trip. You make golf trips to have the kind of days you have at Rock Creek. This is the type of course that leaves a golf group with plenty of stories to tell - probably for years to come, Chris Baldwin writes.
... full article »Kiva Dunes Golf Course is a seaside course you'll never forget in Gulf Shores, Alabama
Kiva Dunes Golf Course is the type of course you travel to play, the kind of showpiece that is a great impetus to come to the Alabama Gulf Shores and discover the other outstanding golf courses and 32 miles of beaches with white sand that looks like its special ordered from a postcard.
... full article »Lakewood Golf Club In Point Clear, Ala.: Tee off among the Civil War ghosts
The two courses at the Lakewood Golf Club sit right across the street, and are part of, the Grand Hotel in Point Clear, Ala. A little cemetery lays near the 18th tee box on the Azalea course. In it, lay the remains of 300 Confederate soldiers wounded in the Battle of Vicksburg. It puts that drive you shanked on No. 18 into perspective.
... full article »TimberCreek Golf Club in Mobile, Ala.: a course to soothe your nightmares
TimberCreek Golf Club outside of Mobile is one of those Alabama golf courses where the wind always seems to be at your back and all your tee shots are downhill. That isn't to say it's a ridiculously easy course, but it is a good antidote in the Mobile area after you've played Magnolia Grove's tough layouts, for example.
... full article »Go mano a mano with Robert Trent Jones at Magnolia Grove in Mobile
If you find yourself struggling to make par at either of the two golf courses at Magnolia Grove, take comfort in that you're playing the golf course the way its inventor intended. "Robert Trent Jones' philosophy was hard par, easy bogey," Magnolia Grove Director of Golf Paul Martino said. Magnolia Grove, part of the much-publicized Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, is a good example of that stern outlook.
... full article »Elevate your game (and lower your score) at Alabama's hilly Rock Creek
You don't expect mountains this close to New Orleans, or to the beach, or to the bay. Well, not mountains, exactly. But these here hills in lower Alabama make for a nice surprise at Rock Creek Golf Club near Mobile.
... full article »In bloom: Mobile's Azalea City a terrific parkland muni
The golf course does its namesake town proud. The conditioning here rivals that of a resort, country club or even upscale semi-private course. The fairways are luscious and green, even after a warm winter; the greens are in impeccable shape. Even the tee boxes look good.
... full article »Coach T's favorite golf course requires your 'A game' at Auburn Links
Auburn Links is Auburn Tigers' coach Tommy Tuberville's favorite golf course in an Auburn-Opelika metro area deemed the best in the country by "Golf Digest" and it's easy to see why the coach is so enamored of the course. With an easy-going attitude and a course that won't destroy your psyche, Auburn Links will present golfers with a few choice challenges, but nothing to ruin a great day on a well-maintained golf course.
... full article »Mis-named Links golf course at Grand National can be a hellcat
Aside from the fact that front nine doesn't come back to the clubhouse at the Links Course at Grand National in Opelika, Ala., it really isn't a true links course in any sense of the word. That doesn't mean that this Robert Trent Jones' creation should be skipped over, however. With the Links Course, Jones has designed another gem, and it's one that's an affordable, fun play. Just try and stay out of the rough.
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