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Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail Grows 12/01/2004

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Alabama's world-renowned Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail continues its growth into the resort market with several new projects. The Fighting Joe course, first of the two new 18-hole courses on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at The Shoals, opens in September. The second course, called the Schoolmaster, should be completed by spring 2005. The golf courses are being built in conjunction with a new RTJ hotel located next to the Florence Conference Center and the Renaissance Tower. The luxury hotel is scheduled to be completed by April 2005.

Construction of Ross Bridge, a new RTJ 18-hole championship golf course, is also underway in Hoover. The new course will be about two miles from the existing RTJ 54-hole course at Oxmoor Valley in Birmingham. The stadium-style course is perfect for spectators and it's an open secret that the Trail is hoping to land a major event at Ross Bridge. The Ross Bridge Hotel and Conference Center complex will overlook the new course. This magnificent complex will feature a 262-room hotel and a 25,000-square-foot conference center. Ross Bridge will open in spring of 2005.