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The best golf courses in Louisiana

By Stephen Hennessey and Derek Duncan
May 29, 2025
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Squire Creek, a 2002 Tom Fazio design in the northern part of the state east of Shreveport, has been ranked either first or second in Louisiana for the past decade, and first for the last four publications of the Best in State list. No surprise there. We thought Brian Silva’s major remodel of Metairie Country Club, a Seth Raynor design outside New Orleans where versions of the architect’s famous template holes were vividly recreated, might make a jump to number two, but our panelists saw it differently and The Country Club of Louisiana in Baton Rouge continues to hold down that spot.

Below you'll find our 2025-'26 ranking of the Best Golf Courses in Louisiana.

Scroll on for the complete list of the best courses in Louisiana. Be sure to click through to each individual course page for bonus photography and reviews from our course panelists. We also encourage you to leave your own ratings … so you can make your case for (or against) any course that you've played.

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5. The Country Club At Golden Nugget
Lake Charles, LA
3.8
2 Panelists
Previous rank: NR
This 7,000-yard, par-72 features beautifully manicured Bermuda greens, and minimal trees that make room for open and forgiving fairways. The course can become quite challenging as the winds pick up from the Gulf of Mexico just a few miles away. With multiple tee options and an eclectic mix of long and short par-3s, par-4s and par-5s, the Golden Nugget course is an intriguing feat for golfers of all handicap levels.
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4. TPC Louisiana
Avondale, LA
3.6
6 Panelists
Previous rank: 4
Home of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans since 2007, this Pete Dye design exudes a flair of TPC Sawgrass with some more low-profile design features like hidden bunkers and green complexes that offer options on approach. Dye had help from fellow tour pros Steve Elkington and New Orleans native Kelly Gibson on this 7,400-yard par-72 layout. Consistently ranked in the top 10 of Golf Digest’s Best in State, TPC Louisiana offers a nice mix of challenging short and long holes.
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3. Metairie Country Club
Metairie, LA
4
21 Panelists
Previous rank: 3
Metairie Country Club, opened in 1925, was the jewel of New Orleans golf through the first decade of its existence. It was designed by Seth Raynor and possessed variations of his much-studied template holes originally introduced by his mentor, C.B. Macdonald, at National Golf Links of America and other courses. A land swap in 1928 fundamentally altered the second nine routing of holes 14-18, and hard economic conditions and infrastructure challenges in the late 1930s prompted further renovations that compromised Raynor's design, a trend that continued for decades. The club never retained Raynor's blueprints for the course and wasn't sure precisely what the architect had left behind. So, in 2021, they hired Brian Silva to reimagine a pure Raynor course on the property. Drawing on as much experience studying and reviving Raynor's designs throughout the country as anyone over the last 30 years, Silva reproduced vivid versions of the Bottle, Biarritz, Redan, Leven, Road, Eden and others. Though not a historical restoration, Metairie has been completely and imaginatively transformed.
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2. The Country Club of Louisiana
Baton Rouge, LA
4.1
6 Panelists
Previous rank: 2
The Country Club of Louisiana in Baton Rouge is one of the best courses in Louisiana. Discover our experts’ reviews and where The Country Club of Louisiana sits in our rankings.
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1. Squire Creek Country Club
Choudrant, LA
4.1
7 Panelists
Previous rank: 1
Built in 2002 by Tom Fazio, Squire Creek is a par 72 that stretches to over 7,000 yards with multiple par-3s over 190 yards. In his 2017 Christmas update to The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses, Tom Doak said: “The I-20 corridor across northern Louisiana is one of America’s major truck routes, so it only made sense for James Davidson to run his trucking firm out of there, and eventually, a Tom Fazio golf course for his employees and for a regional membership. Cut through an undulating oak and pine forest, Squire Creek’s front nine is some of Tom Fazio’s best work, with two arms of the creek coming into play on nearly every hole from the second to the eighth.”
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