Ohio Golf Journal 2018 Winter Travel Issue

In addition to great golf, each facility features a comfortable clubhouse with dining and beverage service. Overnight accommodations are available either on site or within minutes of each location. Affordable “stay & play” packages make the RTJ Golf Trail the perfect golf destination. The original vision of the Alabama State Retirement Fund’s CEO, David Bronner, was to bring more value to the state, as well as, make it more attractive to outside investment and manufacturing. That concept has worked to perfection. Since its inception, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail has had more than 11 million rounds played with nearly half of those players coming from outside the state of Alabama. That is what the Trail was designed to accomplish, and it is working very well. With the construction of the RTJ Golf Trail, economic investment in Alabama has increased significantly. Honda, Mercedes and Hyundai all added manufacturing plants, which has brought new jobs and drastically increased state revenues. In 2015 Ohio Golf Journal