Alabama Golf Resorts & Spas

Marriott Shoals Hotel & Spa, Florence

Splendid golf resorts and lavish spas have sprung up all around Alabama to entice golf travelers to experience Southern hospitality at its best. Along with a variety of more rustic stay and play options, golf groups can choose value and charm, luxury and refinement, or a combination of all that makes Alabama such a special golf and travel destination. In keeping with its goal of offering a truly unique golf travel experience, Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail offers eight luxurious hotels around the state, including four golf resorts. Six of the properties in this RTJ Hotel and Resort Collection include awardwinning European-style spas as part of the RTJ Spa Trail. The Marriott Shoals Hotel and Spa in Florence is located across the Tennessee River from the 36-hole RTJ Golf Trail at the Shoals. In addition to the spa, hotel amenities include a state-ofthe-art fitness center, outdoor resort pool complex, and full convention and meeting facilities. The dining and entertainment offerings are 360º Grille, the state’s only revolving restaurant with sweeping views, and nightly live music in Swampers, named for FAME Studio’s house band in Muscle Shoals. Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa, near Birmingham, is the

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Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort & Spa, Birmingham/Hoover Feature Pool and Patio Bar at Marriott Resort & Spa at Grand National, Auburn/Opelika

state’s most highly-regarded resort. Travel+Leisure ranked Ross Bridge among the top hotels in the world and Conde Nast Traveler named it among the best hotel spas. The property features fine dining, a clubhouse sports bar, lobby lounge, the spa, spacious fitness center, indoor and outdoor pools, meeting and banquet facilities and the 8,200-yard RTJ Golf Trail course. Most notably, the exterior resembles a Scottish castle with soaring turrets and stonework, and at dusk each day, a lone bagpiper plays his way around the hotel, paying tribute to the birthplace of golf. Overlooking the 17th fairway of the Senator Course, the Prattville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center at Capitol Hill was the first lodging built directly on the RTJ Golf Trail. It features guest rooms, plus two eight-bedroom villas, unique to the Trail. Its restaurant serves Southern fare and its lounge incorporates an outdoor fire pit. Another nearby lodging option is the RTJ Golf Trail’s Renaissance Hotel & Spa in downtown Montgomery. The Marriott at Grand National near the Georgia border, 90 miles from the Atlanta airport, is another one of the original resorts along the Trail. With 54 holes of RTJ golf right in its backyard and the recent addition of its top-rated, three-story spa, it is the perfect option

Fire Pit at the Lounge at Marriott Hotel & Conference Center at Capitol Hill, Prattville/Montgomery RTJ Spa Trail at Renaissance Hotel, Montgomery

Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel, Mobile Resort Pool at Grand Hotel Golf Resort & Spa, Point Clear

for golf groups. It also boasts a pub and restaurant, indoor pool, resort-style outdoor pool with cabanas and covered patio bar, plus eight tennis courts. Rounding out the resorts on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is the newly-renovated Grand Hotel Golf Resort & Spa on Mobile Bay. It is a member of Marriott’s Autograph Collection. The all-in-one destination features a full-service spa, two renovated RTJ Golf Trail courses at Lakewood Club, seven restaurants and lounges, two beaches, multiple pools and lots of meeting space. Finally, RTJ Golf Trail stay and play options in downtown Mobile include the historic Renaissance Battle House with a luxurious spa and fun, streetfront pub and Renaissance Riverview adjacent to the convention center with rooftop pool and views of the Mobile River. Pursell Farms, set in the Alabama countryside south of Birmingham, is one of the most unique destinations in the South. This boutique resort offers stay and play golf packages in several four bedroom, luxurious cottages with kitchenettes, in a fully-furnished eight bedroom lodge and in their 40-room first-class Inn. Along with its 18-hole FarmLinks Golf Club, the resort features a restaurant and pub, high-tech meeting space, a well-appointed spa, outdoor

The Battle House Renaissance Hotel & Spa, Mobile Cottages at Pursell Farms, Sylacauga

Kiva Dunes Golf & Beach Resort, Gulf Shores Peninsula Golf & Racquet Club, Gulf Shores

pool, fitness facilities, plus fly-fishing, hunting and sporting clays at their own Orvis® Shooting Grounds. Gulf Shores is home to the state’s only golf resort directly on the Gulf of Mexico. Kiva Dunes Golf & Beach Resort offers beachfront homes plus condos along the 18th fairway of the Jerry Pate-designed course and above the 6-story clubhouse. The resort also offers a restaurant and three outdoor pools, including one with a tiki bar along its own private beach. Also in Gulf Shores, Peninsula and Craft Farms, with their multiple golf courses, accommodate golf groups in condos along their respective fairways. The laid-back golf resort options are all located in the mountains of north Alabama. Lake Guntersville State Park, with its 18-hole golf course, resort inn and restaurant, is located along the Tennessee River. Joe Wheeler State Park features 18 holes of golf, resort lodge and restaurant on the shores of Wheeler Lake. Each also offers a full-service marina, camping, lakeside cottages and meeting facilities. Goose Pond Colony Resort in Scottsboro boasts 36 holes of golf, lakefront cabins, and a marina with dockside seafood restaurant. Come stay and play in Alabama to experience all of the luxury, serenity, beauty and charm we have to offer.

Lake Guntersville State Park Resort, Guntersville Joe Wheeler State Park Resort, Rogersville