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WELCOME
TO ROBERT TRENT JONES GOLF TRIAL
Dr. Bronner was thinking up a way to improve the
game of golf in his area and with that in
mind, and borrowing a page from the movie script, "Field of
Dreams," Bronner decided to
"build-it-and-they-will-come" -- not to a baseball
diamond in a corn field, but to a dazzling collection of public
golf courses in the great state of Alabama. His
vision was on a grand scale -- big, really big. "I don't do
windows and I don't do just 18's."
You see, Dr. Bronner
wasn't looking to build just an 18 hole public golf course, he
wanted to build 378 holes at eight spectacular sites throughout
the entire state, and all at one time!
He brought in Bobby Vaughan, the former director of golf at
Tanglewood in Clemmons, N.C., to put together the team for this
massive project. Vaughan formed SunBelt Golf Corporation which
would develop, construct, operate and manage all 18 golf courses.
Then Dr. Bronner said we need someone to design 18 golf courses
and that is where architect Robert Trent Jones, Sr., arguably the
premier golf course architect in the world stepped in to help.
Jones jumped at the chance and emerged from semi-retirement to
tackle the project. After all eight sites
were opened, construction began on two new sites and was completed
in 2005, expanding the Trail to 10 different sites. The historic
Lakewood Golf Club in Point Clear has undergone extensive
renovations and is the Trail's latest addition, bringing the total
to 11 Trail sites...26 courses...and 468 incredible holes!
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