Dunes/Lakes at GlenLakes Golf Club

GlenLakes Golf Club in Foley, Alabama features two eighteen-hole courses designed by Bruce Devlin and Robert von Hagge, who collaborated on numerous layouts across the American South during the 1970s and 1980s. The Dunes and Lakes courses reflect the design partnership's characteristic approach to Gulf Coast terrain, incorporating the region's natural sandy soils, native vegetation, and water features into strategic golf holes. Foley sits inland from the Gulf Shores resort corridor, where residential golf development expanded significantly during this period.

The Dunes course takes its name from the rolling, elevated terrain that provides more pronounced topographical movement than typically found in coastal Alabama layouts. The routing emphasizes these natural contours while incorporating the design team's signature use of large, sculptured bunkers and water hazards that frame landing areas and greens. The Lakes course, as its name suggests, brings water into play more frequently throughout the round, with ponds and wetlands serving both strategic and aesthetic purposes across multiple holes.

Both courses serve a membership and daily-fee clientele in the Baldwin County golf market, which has grown substantially as the greater Gulf Shores area developed into a regional golf destination. The layouts provide a representative example of Devlin and von Hagge's work during an era when resort-style courses with bold visual features became standard in warm-weather golf markets. The courses operate within a residential community setting typical of southeastern golf development from this period.