RTJ Trail (esp northern courses)

[picrig]

I'm moving to Huntsville, AL in about a month and plan on getting an annual resident's pass to the robert trent jones trail (unlimited greens fees at 9 of 11 sites, 4 of which are w/in an hour of Huntsville). I've yet to squeeze in a round at the Huntsville site (Hampton Cove), although I'm going to try to get in a round when I'm up there looking at houses. Has anyone played at Hampton Cover or any of the other northern trail sites (Silver Lakes, The Shoals, Oxmoor Valley)? How are they?

[EightBlue]

  picrig said:

I'm moving to Huntsville, AL in about a month and plan on getting an annual resident's pass to the robert trent jones trail (unlimited greens fees at 9 of 11 sites, 4 of which are w/in an hour of Huntsville). I've yet to squeeze in a round at the Huntsville site (Hampton Cove), although I'm going to try to get in a round when I'm up there looking at houses. Has anyone played at Hampton Cover or any of the other northern trail sites (Silver Lakes, The Shoals, Oxmoor Valley)? How are they?

Big fan of oxmoor valley. definitely try the 18 hole short course as well. perhaps the best par 3 course i have ever played.

[picrig]

Definitely wanting to try out the short courses. There's the one at Oxmoor and Hampton Cove has a full 18 hole short course. I'm expecting my iron game to improve a lot. We'll see.

[raygrinberg]

Played the Ridge Course at Oxmoor. Challenging but I liked Grand National in Opelika much better.

[gobears19]

Three friends and I are playing the two Shoals courses this weekend for the first time. I typically always play the tips, whenever I play, but both courses are over 8,000 yards! That's 600 yards longer than Bethpage Black for crying out loud. Has anyone ever played either of these courses from the tips, and does it play that long? Is it any fun from back there? Seems kind of gimicky.