Hampton Cove – RTJ Golf Trail In My Future

by Mike Sigers

Highlands 5th Hole at Hampton Cove

I have a feeling that I’ll be playing some Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail golf this month.

I also have a feeling that it will be at Hampton Cove in Huntsville !

The Highlands course, which is home to the 5th hole shown in the photo above, is an American-style links course.

Did you notice the old mule barn that the designers left in place ? I think that was a touch of class worth noting.

The River course is about 180-degrees in the other direction. Not a single bunker. Not one. It may be the only Trail course without one, as far as I can remember.

It’s laid out in an old soybean field in the floodplain of the Flint River.

It’s not one of my favorites because of the way it was built. They did it the old fashioned way, by just pushing up dirt to form the greens and I hate raised greens, unless they are humongus like at the Old Course at St. Andrews, not the small raised greens we do here in the States.

Golf was not meant to be played on a turtles back.

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