re: LSU golf course

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I just want to make sure I understand what everyone wants. Convenient golf within a five minute drive of their house, Cheap (but for the kids!!) and good conditions?

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Pretty much.

I'm perfectly content paying $20 to walk Webb on a weekend morning with the conditions that course is in right now. I've been playing that course for almost 25 years, and it's never been in as good a shape as it is right now. When LSU was in decent shape, it was a similar price point.

That's a better option for me than having to drive to Gonzales, Zachary, Plaquemine, etc. and pay $45-$65 to play on "nicer" courses. I do enjoy playing those courses, but it's not always feasible to do so on a consistent basis. At least for me.

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I just want to make sure I understand what everyone wants. Convenient golf within a five minute drive of their house, Cheap (but for the kids!!) and good conditions?

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If I was golf czar of Baton Rouge, where I had control over every course in the city, regardless of who owns it, I'd do the following:

Webb: Sell off the left side of the ditch and the other side of College. Take that money and turn it into a 9 hole course with a phenomenal practice area. Set it up so it could play from a couple different tees so it could be as close to 18 different holes as possible. It would take some ingenuity, but it could be done.

City: Turn the first couple holes into a park for the community. Then I'd take the rest of the course and turn it into a 9 hole par 3 course, and put lights so you could play it at night.

Beaver: Leave it as is. Although, I'd let the native grass they have out there grow more rampant. It's a beautiful feature they lose when they scalp it. I wouldn't put it anywhere that it would effect play, but it makes the course seem much nicer when they have pockets of it growing around.

Santa Maria: Demolish 1 tee and move it up 50 yards. Pull out the cart path and expand the driving range back as far as you could and expand it on the other side of the snack stand and bathrooms and tie it in to 10 tee. Put a fairway bunker on the right side of one fairway to give a risk reward to hitting driver from what was the ladies tees.

JS Clark/ Dumas: no idea.

Bluffs: Get it back to where I'll willing pay more than $100 to play it. That is the lane this course should live in. I'm not playing it weekly, but I'll make the trip every now and then and pay top dollar for a great course.

Sherwood: I'd buy Sherwood and turn it into what Webb is currently.

Let Pelican, Carter, Greystone, and Island keep doing their things. They will still pull people who live in those areas and people who want to travel for golf. The three country clubs would stay the exact same, but I'm demolishing 15 green at UClub and starting over.