Golf in Huntsville

Huntsville is the most economically dynamic city in Alabama and one of the most consequential defense and technology centers in the United States, home to Redstone Arsenal, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, and the constellation of contractors and agencies that constitute the nation's space and missile defense industrial base. The city has transformed dramatically from a cotton mill town into a metropolitan area with the highest concentration of engineers and scientists per capita of any American city, and this demographic profile—educated, mobile, nationally connected, and relatively affluent—has created a golf market with expectations and tastes shaped by national rather than purely regional standards. The Robert Trent Jones Trail's Hampton Cove facility and The Ledges, among other courses, reflect the elevated recreational profile of a city that rivals the much larger metropolitan areas of the South in the sophistication and quality of its recreational infrastructure.