Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail At Capitol Hill: The Judge

Prattville, AL Public

Overview

Appropriately named for its location just outside Alabama’s state capital, the Judge course at Capitol Hill opens with one of the more memorable holes on the Trail. The par-4 first lunges off a cliff nearly 100 feet straight down hill to a slender fairway the sneaks toward a green perched along the backwaters of the Alabama River. The majority of the course wanders the isolated low country near the river, slipping between meadows, forest and marshy bogs with water in play on 14 of 18 holes. Ranked seventh on our Best in Alabama list, The Judge is a strict sentencer demanding your best ball-striking, most notably on the island-green par-3 sixth.

About

Holes 18
Length 7813
Slope 147
Price $116
Facility Type Public
Designer Robert Trent Jones, ASGCA/Roger G. Rulewich, ASGCA

Awards

100 Greatest Public
Best Courses in Every State

Ranking history:

100 Greatest Public: Ranked 100th, 2009-'10.

Best in State: Ranked fourth, 2011-'12, 2015-'16. Ranked fifth, 2021-'22. Ranked sixth, 2013-'14, 2017-'18, 2019-'20, 2023-'24.
2023-'24 ranking: 6th.

Golf Digest Logo Panelists

Ratings from our panel of 1,900 course-ranking panelists

4.2

100 GREATEST/BEST IN STATE SCORES

Shot Options
6.7129
Character
6.7907
Challenge
7.0931
Layout Variety
6.7197
Fun
6.7098
Aesthetics
6.7183
Conditioning
6.6583

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