Golf Course Architect - Louisiana Roots or Work

Jim Lipe - worked for Nicklaus for years.

Lipe is your answer, he's a little older but still around.

Jim Lipe continues to work as Senior Design Associate for Jack Nicklaus, as well as having his on golf course design firm in Shreveport. He has been responsible for some major golf courses throughout the country, most recently the renovation of Castle Pines GC, where the BMW Championship was played last year. He also designed Boot Ranch for Hal Sutton, and has worked with David Toms on multiple designs. He and David are presently is renovating East Ridge CC in Shreveport, and a few years ago, renovated Southern Trace CC also in Shreveport, and it is now one of the very best courses in the region. Highly recommended

More to come. But it will be the best golf experience in all of Louisiana.

Keep your shite on pelicans talk ya fricking wanker.

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Yes, he did Oakwing.
Although they go through ups and downs condition-wise, and have changed management groups several times, the design of the course is above average IMO.
He also worked in some of the previous holes from the air base course that was there prior. He also had to work around Alexandria airport rules regarding trees (14,15,16).
Think he did a pretty good job overall.

What area of the state are you trying to do something?

My best advice. Have your super in place for the build. I had the pleasure of working with a top 50 designer and while he built a beautiful course, my super hates me. Its just an incredibly hard course to maintain with hills, elevation and valleys. No matter how good the super he cant make water run against gravity so the hills are a bitch to maintain.