Lagoon Park

The rolling terrain through Montgomery's piney woods creates natural elevation changes that most Alabama courses can only dream of, with several holes playing dramatically uphill or downhill through corridors of towering longleaf pines. Water comes into play on nearly half the holes, but it's the strategic kind that rewards precision over power—particularly the signature par-3 14th where the green sits on a peninsula jutting into the lagoon. At this price point for public golf in the Heart of Dixie, you're getting conditioning and design complexity that rivals privates twice the cost.