Cottonwood Golf Club

The clay-heavy terrain around Montgomery shapes every approach shot at this Robert Trent Jones Sr. design, where elevated greens demand precision and local knowledge of how balls react on Alabama's notorious red dirt. Jones masterfully routed the layout through rolling hills and mature hardwoods, creating corridors that reward strategic positioning over pure distance. The par-4 12th epitomizes the architect's philosophy—a dogleg right that tempts big hitters into trouble while rewarding those who play to the proper angle for an unobstructed approach to a severely sloped putting surface.