Grand National - Short

Opelika, Alabama

The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Grand National is in Opelika, Georgia, about an hour northeast of Montgomery. Grand National, by all reports, was the single greatest site for a golf complex that Robert Trent Jones, Sr. had ever seen. Built on 600-acre Lake Saugahatchee, 32 of the 54 holes drape along its filigreed shores. Grand National was ranked the top public golf course in the 2009 Golf World Readers' Choice awards; its three courses are also listed among the nation's 40 Super Value courses by Golf Digest's Places to Play. The Short Course at Grand National is a thing of beauty, with more than half the holes gracing the banks of Lake Saugahatchee. This 18-hole course of one-shotters might be the finest anywhere on the planet, according to some golf writers.