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 that 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.