Greystone Golf & Country Club
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Greystone Golf & Country Club is a private, 36-hole golf
club located just outside Birmingham, Alabama
, United States
, in the suburb of Hoover, Alabama
. The two courses are known as The Founders Course (designed by Bob Cupp) and the The Legacy Course (designed by Rees Jones in 2000). The Legacy Course is currently ranked #89 in Golf Week's Top 100 Residential Courses. From 1992-2005, the club hosted the PGA
Champions Tour
golf
tournament
, the Bruno's Memorial Classic
. In fact, the course was so beloved by the players, officials, and media that they voted it in a Sports Illustrated
poll as the #1 stop on the Champion tournament two years in a row http://www.businessalabama.net/default.asp?id=1141http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golf/news/2001/08/14/top_10/.
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
club located just outside Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, in the suburb of Hoover, Alabama
Hoover, Alabama
Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby Counties in north central Alabama, in the United States. The largest suburb of Birmingham, the population of the city was 62,742 as of the 2000 census and 81,619 in the 2010 census. Hoover is part of the Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA and is also included in the...
. The two courses are known as The Founders Course (designed by Bob Cupp) and the The Legacy Course (designed by Rees Jones in 2000). The Legacy Course is currently ranked #89 in Golf Week's Top 100 Residential Courses. From 1992-2005, the club hosted the PGA
Professional Golfers' Association of America
Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and is made up of more than 28,000 men and women golf professional members...
Champions Tour
Champions Tour
The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA Tour, hosts a series of events annually in the United States and the United Kingdom for golfers 50 years of age and older. Many of the PGA Tour's most successful golfers have gone on to play on the Champions Tour.The Senior PGA Championship, founded in...
golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
tournament
Tournament
A tournament is a competition involving a relatively large number of competitors, all participating in a sport or game. More specifically, the term may be used in either of two overlapping senses:...
, the Bruno's Memorial Classic
Regions Charity Classic
The Regions Charity Classic, formerly known as the Bruno's Memorial Classic, was an American golf tournament on the Champions Tour. It was held at Ross Bridge Golf Resort and Spa, one of ten courses on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, located in Hoover, Alabama . The tournament was founded in...
. In fact, the course was so beloved by the players, officials, and media that they voted it in a Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
poll as the #1 stop on the Champion tournament two years in a row http://www.businessalabama.net/default.asp?id=1141http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golf/news/2001/08/14/top_10/.