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Bill Homyak
Birmingham
2019-05-19
$126 (cart included), played on Friday, May 2019 at 7:00 AM
Ross Bridge is the signature course on the Robert Trent Jones Trail. It is more expensive at around $140 when compared to around $85 for other Trail courses. It is worth it, Yes! This is an amazing site as they seemed to have purchase twice the amount of land that is normally needed to build a golf course. Every hole is immense with wide fairways and lots of room around the entire hole. The vistas are impressive with views of huge lakes, rolling fairways, and the dense trees around the perimeter of the site. The course was in perfect shape with fast and very smooth greens, perfect bunkers, and bermuda fairways that were pure like putting greens. The staff is great too! We made this our final round of our 9 round Trail experience and what a great way to end the trip. Note: the back tees can stretch to about 8,000 yards so take a good look at the scorecard before choosing tee boxes. We picked orange at 6800 yards or so and that was very enjoyable. (This is the one RTJ Trail site with only one course but the Oxmoor Valley site is only a mile away with two 36 hole excellent layouts)
Would travel: 60-120 Miles, Vacation Worthy
Bottom line: I would play again, Ranks with the best in this price level, Expensive and worth it
Condition of Course, Pace of Play, Ambiance, Pro Shop, Layout, No Houses on Course, Clubhouse
$126 (cart included), played on Friday, May 2019 at 7:00 AM
Ross Bridge is the signature course on the Robert Trent Jones Trail. It is more expensive at around $140 when compared to around $85 for other Trail courses. It is worth it, Yes! This is an amazing site as they seemed to have purchase twice the amount of land that is normally needed to build a golf course. Every hole is immense with wide fairways and lots of room around the entire hole. The vistas are impressive with views of huge lakes, rolling fairways, and the dense trees around the perimeter of the site. The course was in perfect shape with fast and very smooth greens, perfect bunkers, and bermuda fairways that were pure like putting greens. The staff is great too! We made this our final round of our 9 round Trail experience and what a great way to end the trip. Note: the back tees can stretch to about 8,000 yards so take a good look at the scorecard before choosing tee boxes. We picked orange at 6800 yards or so and that was very enjoyable. (This is the one RTJ Trail site with only one course but the Oxmoor Valley site is only a mile away with two 36 hole excellent layouts)