When Dr David G. Bronner, CEO of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, started the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail years ago he made the decision to build to a massive scale. He wanted to create something different, memorable, and awesome. First generation Trail courses were primarily bermudagrass with natural grass accents....
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Many thanks to Doug Tinkham for this great article in our October issue. Doug is from The Shoals Golf Club in Muscle Shoals Alabama. The Shoals has two 18 hole championship courses, the "Fighting Joe" named after General Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler, the only Confederate General to attain the same rank later in the United States Army.
The second course, the "Schoolmaster" named for President Woodrow Wilson who was responsible for getting Wilson Dam built and was also known as "The Schoolmaster of politics.
Credit to the Robert Trent Jones website for this information, which you can see at The Shoals Golf Club site here.
