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Pelham sits in Shelby County, just south of Birmingham along the I-65 corridor — one of the most golf-rich stretches in Alabama. The area's rolling Appalachian foothills give courses here a natural topography that flat-land designers can only envy, with elevation changes, hardwood forests, and the kind of red-clay soil that shapes both the land and the game played on it. Ballantrae occupies this terrain as a daily-fee public course serving the southside Birmingham suburbs, where a dense and enthusiastic local golf community keeps tee sheets busy year-round.
The name Ballantrae carries a Scottish echo — a nod to the links traditions that so many American parkland courses like to claim as spiritual ancestors. Whether the design leans into that heritage or simply borrows the branding, the surrounding landscape does the heavy lifting: mature hardwoods, contoured fairways, and the seasonal color shifts that make Alabama's piedmont region genuinely worth playing through every month of the year.
As an everyday public layout at par 72, Ballantrae reads as a course built for the community around it — accessible enough for recreational golfers, but set in terrain that rewards attention and course management over raw power.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I · men | 7,273 | 74.2 | 125 | 72 |
| II · men | 6,773 | 72.1 | 122 | 72 |
| III · men | 6,243 | 69.6 | 120 | 72 |
| III · women | 6,243 | 75.3 | 125 | 72 |
| IV · men | 5,759 | 66.6 | 115 | 72 |
| IV · women | 5,759 | 72 | 118 | 72 |
| V · men | 5,060 | 63.8 | 108 | 72 |
| V · women | 5,059 | 68.4 | 113 | 72 |
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