Hone Your Skills Along Louisiana's Audubon Golf Trail
Try your hand at 18 unique and challenging courses statewide.
Try your hand at 18 unique and challenging courses statewide.
Louisiana’s Audubon Golf Trail is a statewide series of pro-caliber courses offering challenging golf surrounded by the state’s music, cuisine and cultural offerings. Courses are in or near every major Louisiana city. The trail is named for John James Audubon, who painted many of his famous Birds of America series while living near St. Francisville.
Courses include:
- The Golf Club at Audubon Park on St. Charles Avenue, the historic Garden District’s largest park. Just 10 minutes from the Superdome and the city’s central business district, the par-62 course is 81 acres of contoured fairways, multiple lagoons and exquisite landscaping set among more centuries-old live oak trees. The park offers not only golf but also hiking and biking trails and one of the South’s best zoos. It is the only golf course in America accessible by streetcar, and the same rail line is dotted with a variety of eateries, live music venues, museums and art and antiques galleries.
- Carter Plantation east of Baton Rouge in Springfield is a 7,050-yard, par-72 course. Designed by PGA champion David Toms, the course traverses three distinct Louisiana landscapes—live oak flats, baldcypress wetlands and upland pine forests.
- Cypress Bend Resort sits on Toledo Bend Reservoir west of Alexandria. Ten holes run along the 186,000-acre lake, and six holes involve hidden coves and bayous. Terrain is hilly with pines and hardwoods flanking fairways.
- TPC Louisiana is a 7,600-yard, par-72 course in Avondale designed by master architect Pete Dye. He created the course to sit low on the property and challenge players with not only bunkers and water hazards but also natural vegetation, including numerous baldcypress trees. TPC is home to Louisiana’s only PGA event, the annual Zurich Classic.
- LaTour Golf Club is along the banks of beautiful Bayou Lafourche and features an 18-hole golf course designed by PGA tour champion David Toms. The 72-par course sits on 597 acres of beautiful rolling grasslands and lakes that add to the beauty and splendor of LaTour.
- Bayou Oaks South Course features 18 holes of championship golf in New Orleans City Park. The pristine South Course was designed by renowned golf course architect Rees Jones and Greg Muirhead of Rees Jones, Inc., in association with Torre Design Consortium.
Black Bear Golf Lodge
Audubon Golf Trail sign at Atchafalaya Golf Course
Wetlands Golf Course
LaTour Golf Course
Other trail courses are The Atchafalaya at Idlewild in Patterson; Black Bear in Delhi; Copper Mill in Zachary; Farm d’Allie in Carencro; The Island in Plaquemine; Koasati Pines in Kinder; Mallard Golf Club in Lake Charles; Oak Knoll in Hammond; OakWing in Alexandria; Santa Maria in Baton Rouge; Tamahka Trails in Marksville; and The Wetlands in Lafayette.
To learn more about courses and reserve tee times and accommodations, visit the official Audubon Golf Trail website.