Golf courses by state
Louisiana Golf Courses & Tee Times
Louisiana's state golf association, the LGA, dates to 1920, when it held the first Louisiana State Amateur at Shreveport Country Club. It added a Junior Amateur in 1958, and players like Hal Sutton and David Toms came through it. The state's PGA Tour stop has a long history too: the tournament now called the Zurich Classic began in 1938 on a City Park course in New Orleans and has been played at TPC Louisiana, a Pete Dye course open to the public, since 2005. For the traveling golfer, the state promotes the Audubon Golf Trail, formed in 2001 and grown to 18 courses by 2022.
Tee times in Louisiana are easier to get when you know when they open. Yoink watches 56 public golf courses here, grouped into 4 markets: New Orleans & Baton Rouge, Lafayette & Acadiana, Lake Charles, East Texas. Choose a market to see every course, then get an alert when a tee time opens or someone cancels.
Louisiana golf markets
New Orleans & Baton Rouge
Audubon Park Golf Club, Bayou Oaks at City Park - South Course, Bayou Side Golf Course…
Lafayette & Acadiana
Atchafalaya Golf Course, Jay and Lionel Hebert Municipal Golf Course, Les Vieux Chenes Golf Course…
Lake Charles
Contraband Bayou Golf Club, Koasati Pines at Coushatta Casino Resort, Mallard Golf Club…
East Texas
Cypress Bend Golf Club
More Louisiana
Chennault Park Golf Course, Country Club At Frenchman's Bend, Jackson Parish Golf Course…
Who runs public golf in Louisiana
In New Orleans, public golf means City Park's two courses, the city-owned Joseph M. Bartholomew, Sr. Municipal in Pontchartrain Park and Audubon Park's par-62 course. In Baton Rouge, the parish parks agency BREC runs the public courses, including Webb Memorial, once LSU's course, and Robert Trent Jones Sr.'s Santa Maria. BREC opens its 18-hole tee sheets at noon, 13 days out. For juniors, the LGA runs the Louisiana Junior Golf Tour for ages 11 to 18, set up with the Gulf States PGA in 2019, and Youth on Course, where members ages 6 to 18 play participating courses for $5 or less. LGA memberships start at $50.
Public courses worth knowing in Louisiana
- TPC Louisiana Golf Club: Pete Dye, working with Steve Elkington and Kelly Gibson, opened it in 2004 in Avondale. Host of the Zurich Classic since 2005 and open to the public.
- Bayou Oaks at City Park - South Course: City Park golf dates to 1902. After Katrina, Rees Jones rebuilt the old East and West courses into this par-72 South Course, reopened in 2017.
- Audubon Park Golf Club: Uptown New Orleans course from 1898, redesigned in 2001 as an 18-hole par 62 under old live oaks.
- Joseph Bartholomew Golf Course: Opened in 1956 as the Pontchartrain Golf Course, designed and built by Joseph M. Bartholomew Sr., the first African American to build a public golf course. Renamed for him in 1979.
- Webb Memorial Golf Course: Baton Rouge course from 1925, owned by LSU from 1936 and sold to BREC in 1957.
- Santa Maria Golf Course: BREC's Robert Trent Jones Sr. design in Baton Rouge and an Audubon Golf Trail member.
- Historic City Park Golf Course: Tom Bendelow's 1926 nine in Baton Rouge, the city's first municipal course, on the National Register of Historic Places.
Towns with the most courses
- New Orleans · 2
- Zachary · 2
- Baton Rouge · 2
- Lafayette · 2
- Napoleonville · 1
- Amite City · 1
- Roseland · 1
- Houma · 1
- Franklinton · 1
- Luling · 1
- Mathews · 1
- Slidell · 1
- Denham Springs · 1
- Galliano · 1
- Cade · 1
- Abbeville · 1
- Sulphur · 1
- Westlake · 1
- Many · 1
- Monroe · 1
- Jonesboro · 1
- Shreveport · 1
- Haughton · 1
Getting a tee time in Louisiana
In Louisiana, the busiest months are spring and fall. In summer, everyone wants to finish before the heat, so early tee times go first.
Each course releases its tee times on its own schedule, commonly a week or two out, with residents of town and county courses often booking first. Leagues, outings and members claim chunks of the sheet in advance, and whatever prime weekend times are left tend to go on release day.
A full tee sheet rarely stays full. Many courses let you cancel without a fee up to 24 or 48 hours before your time, so spots tend to reappear in the last couple of days. A bad forecast shakes more loose, and a foursome that drops to three opens a single. None of it is announced. The time just shows up again on the booking page, and whoever looks first gets it.
Yoink
Every course in Louisiana on one watchlist: all 56 of them
Yoink watches all 56 courses in Louisiana for you. The open tee times sit in one place instead of a dozen booking pages, and your phone buzzes the moment one fits your day, time window and group, cancellations included.
Tee times in Louisiana: questions
How do I get tee time cancellation alerts in Louisiana?
Pick your courses in Yoink (56 in Louisiana), set the days, time window and group size you want, and Yoink sends a notification when a matching time opens up. You book directly with the course.
When is golf season busiest in Louisiana?
Demand peaks in spring and fall, and early in the morning in summer. Weekend mornings are the hardest tee times to get.
When do tee time cancellations usually show up?
Mostly in the 24 to 48 hours before the tee time, as golfers cancel ahead of the course's cancellation deadline, and whenever the forecast turns.
Sources
Facts on this page come from these pages, checked 2026-09-28. Rates and booking rules change, so confirm with the course.
- lgagolf.org · association
- lgagolf.org · association
- lgagolf.org · association
- nbcsports.com · media
- visitlakecharles.org · official
- tpc.com · official
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- neworleanscitypark.org · official
- cityparkgolf.com · official
- audubonnatureinstitute.org · official
- playnolagolf.com · official
- en.wikipedia.org · media
- tclf.org · association
- golf.brec.org · government
- golf.brec.org · government
- golf.brec.org · government
- golf.brec.org · government
The best tee times in Louisiana open up at random
Cancellations don't get announced. Yoink watches the sheets around the clock and buzzes your phone when one fits.