WHY AUBURN-OPELIKA?
Auburn-Opelika is modern hospitality. Here, you’ll find a boutique town that’s budget-friendly, a backyard full of Alabama pines, trails, and waterways to explore, year-round gentle seasons, legendary restaurants, a hub for engineering, a vibrant and youthful community, and venues that are extensions of our forward-thinking mentality and rooted traditions.
Official Golf Shoe Partner of the Yellowhammer Invitational
FootJoy. It’s about comfort. It’s about performance. It’s about tradition. FootJoy has been committed to creating superior golf footwear, gloves, and accessories that will enhance your on-course experience. Second to none, FootJoy is the choice of those who love the game, from young to old, from amateur to top professional. For more than 60 years, FootJoy has been the leading golf shoe on the PGA tour.
Venue of the Men’s and Women’s Yellowhammer Invitational
The 7,314-yard Lake course on the RTJ Golf Trail at Grand National features a dozen holes that skirt the banks of Lake Saugahatchee. The 230-yard par three 15th plays to an island green and is perhaps the best one-shot hole on the RTJ Golf Trail.
In 1997, the Lake Course played host to what is now the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, the season-ending tournament for the PGA Tour’s Korn Ferry Tour. The Lake course also hosted the first edition of the PGA Tour’s Barbasol Championship in 2015, played as an alternative event for the Open Championship. On the amateur circuit, the Lake course has hosted events of distinction such as the NCAA D1 Men’s and Women’s National Championships.
The course is part of the acclaimed Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, a visually stunning collection of masterpiece golf courses in Alabama). It has been voted the #1 public golf facility in America by the readers of Golf World.