La Tour looks beautiful. I would be game for a day of golfing out there for sure even if it means embarrassing myself in front of fellow refugees.
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Oak Harbor is sleeper good, really like that place. Played it twice on my own and once in a league/tournament.
I play with this group Bayou Bogeys and they play once a month tournaments that travel. Funny you mention that Mississippi area - Our last one was at the Oak Club in Biloxi. It was a really nice track. First time I saw hills and āelevatedā tee boxes since I moved down here haha. Worth the drive for sure.
Gotta try Cypress Lakes, good to know itās like $60 for the day, thatās so worth it. Before I joined TPC I was thinking of seeing what they had going on since itās also so close to me and joining there but I just fell in love with the TPC vibe.
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La Tour looks PURE, wow.
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Preach brother. NOLA golf is the most confusing thing on the face of the planet. I have gotten lucky with having friends who are members at Chateau, Metairie CC, and English Turn because I can always play out there for the guest rate and not have to deal with the congestion of city park. Joey B is THE hidden gem of New Orleans. The company I work for is headquartered right off of France Road so I have always been able to shoot over there on the weekdays for a quick 18. On the weekends it gets way too busy for my taste so I would just muscle the $60 to play Cypress Lakes instead.
You are right about Oak Harbor. Total sleeper. Fun fact - only course in Louisiana that has Poa grass on the greens. I usually play out there on Tuesday or Wednesday mornings every week since lockdown started. Send me a PM if you are down. Think we are playing 36 next week.
Wait a second - you play with them too?!?!?! I joined up last year through Jon Jensen, but havenāt made any tournaments this year since the whole COVID thing. I was going to play The Oaks, but got tied up with my girlfriendās family that weekend. If the conference that I have planned for 5/17 gets cancelled then I will definitely be at Windance. Just wait till you play Grand Bear. Probably my favorite track in the Louisiana/Mississippi area.
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No such thing as embarrassment. Just wait till you see the queef hook that I have going with my driver right now. It will make anyone roll over laughing!
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Ha yup, just joined this year.
Met a guy at TPC first time I played it back in January before I joined and he invited me to play with them. Big group, 40+ turnout at each event so far. Iāve played both events at Oak Harbor and the Oaks. Shot an unlucky 90 at Oaks Harbor (Iāve never been in the lip of a bunker so many times or OB where I can see my ball RIGHT THERE in a yard 
) and then a more like my usual self 79 at the Oaks (Wouldāve won by three if I qualified for the money, need 4 rounds under my belt to be a money winner but oh well).
I think the one at Windance is up in the air, last email I saw said that Windance wasnāt answering the phone so that one might get moved but yea the course list they have on the schedule is really cool and Iām definitely looking forward to Grand Bear.
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Oh yea, I love a good duck killing hook. Thatās my jam.
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If there was a short description for Oak Harbor this would be it. Yep, thatās the one. I was SHOOOOOK the first time I played out there and when it is dry the ball runs crazy far. Teeād off with a 3 iron on #9 on Wednesday and piped one down the middleā¦ rolled all the way into the water that pokes into the fairway. I couldāve broke a club! The entire front 9 screams hit the hell out of your driver and you got itā¦ then the reality check sets in.
Iāll have to find the scorecard and send it to yāall, but the difference between the front and the back is literally a tale of two cities. I.e., I am usually a low - mid 80s golfer. Go out there last week and shoot a 48 on the front and a 39 on the back. I have changed up my game plan and decided that I am just going to beat a 3 iron around off the tee all day and see what happens.
Like I said man, I play out there every week on Tuesday or Wednesday mornings. Feel free to shoot me a PM and you can come tag along with the group. Everyone is low - mid 80s like myself and as long as you donāt mind music on the stereo and a couple guys drinking beer and cutting up we are always welcome to more people. Just be ready for our groupās old timer to give you a nickname in the first few holes!
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How did I miss thisā¦ played Sugarland when I used to go to my buddyās place in Gheens back in the high school days. That was a fun course from what I remember. I had a meet up scheduled prior to coronavirus outbreak. That is definitely back on once everyone is feeling up to it.
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Yea driver is not the move there, it was the best ball striking 90 Iāve ever had.
Iāll take you up on that invite soon for sure. My wife is also working from home so in the mornings Iām on daddy day care duty with our three year old (She naps from like 1 until 4 or 5 so thatās when I head out to TPC) but Iām sure one of these Tuesdays or Wednesdays I can talk her into letting me out in the morning ha.
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Bring it on brother! Out there every week.
Anyone ever watch the Strapped: Louisiana? I wish they would have hit Joey B. No flak towards Audubon, but the story behind that track is awesome.
I would lobby hard for a Tourist Sauce that encompasses golf down here and on the MS Gulf Coast. Plenty of hidden gems.
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Strapped:Lousiana dropped just a bit after I moved down here, loved it. Audubon is such a great place but yea it wouldāve been great to see them play Joey B. Itās such a perfect muni.
Funny story - A few weeks before the strapped episodes, I played with the dad of the singer (Maggie Koerner) whose house the guys stayed with in the final episode. We were waiting at Joey B on a weekend and we linked up on the back 9 and he said he was ādown here visiting his daughter, sheās a singer in New Orleans, look her upā.
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They need to do a Tourist Sauce from Shreveport all the way to Biloxi or even to Gulf Shores. To see the change then terrain, people, and lifestyles.
Iāll be moving to the Ruston/Shreveport area early next year. Iām a bayou born and raised cooyon moving to the Baptist belt full of rolling hills and copperheads. Iām gonna be like a fish outta water
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Man, youāll feel like I felt when I moved down here, a yankee in the south ha.
Itās been wild seeing all the diversity and different lifestyles down here though, eye opening and really cool. Love it down here, not going back to snow, no thanks.
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Have you had good boiled crawfish yet, or shrimp? I always joke with my fiance (shes from Oklahoma and lives in Ruston) that I wont eat gumbo from above I10, that people over in Shreveport they make a rich stew and not a gumbo
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@Wolfhearted not as drastic, but when I moved to covington I realized how true the north of I-10 statement is. Ordered a fried shrimp poboy and when I got it, it was not dressed. The waitress proceeded to tell me that I had to request any poboy dressed. I was not a happy camper and immediately wanted to go back to New Orleans.
@Bakes0 this is a pretty cool place man. Truly one of a kind. Giant melting pot of culture. Yāall can keep that snow business up there. As miserable as the humidity can be I canāt imagine having to deal with snow and freezes and all that Jazz. Iāll settle for freaking out when it sleets 
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If you are moving to the Ruston area, you have some good options for golf.
Squire - just outside of Ruston - private but it is the best course in Louisiana.
Mystic Creek - just across the state line in Arkansas - best course in Arkansas and open to the public
Calvert Crossing - just outside of West Monroe - semi private but can get tee tie anytime - I like the course
David Tomsā facility in Shreveport - great training / practice facility and the cost is not all that bad.
plenty of public tracts around - Shreveport golf is a little down right now.
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Im from Monroe but frequent NOLA and seeing this list of courses has me dialed in to play golf down in NOLA again asap.
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They got her looking like a carpet farm!
Had my puuuurreeeeee senses tingling. I could write a 1,000 word report on the ways that this course makes me feel and some of them might put my report under the ācrotch novelā category!
Ya better make it down here for the 1st Annual Refugee South Louisiana Shootout once we can get it planned. I am excited to get our humble region on the map of the refuge!
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