Baton Rouge Golf

Louisiana golf in general just sucks

It is what it is

That’s why I moved to Southern California(not the only reason). There is probably 200 courses within a two drive of where I am and the worst one is 10x better than Webb.

I played beaver creek a few weeks ago. That’s a nice course

Southern Trace in Shreveport went thru a remodel last year and Jim Lipe did a masterful architectural job by removing the gum drop swales and is now a very graceful and beautiful course. Probably now the best in Louisiana.

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It’s so bad.

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Hot take, I actually think BR area golf is underrated.

Just played at an average course in Denver a few weeks ago and paid $80+ on a Thursday to get thrown into a packed tee sheet and 5 hour round. Don't get me started on Scottsdale, or anywhere where you can't play half the year because of winter for that matter.

You get what you pay for and $$ goes a long way down here. Webb and Clark are exceptionally cheap, and Santa Maria, the Island, Beaver Creek, etc. are all a great value for $50-$60 on the weekends and usually in good/great shape.

BR golf may not have a variety top-tier style courses to choose from, but you can play year-round at some solid mid-tier courses for much cheaper than most other cities around the country.

fwiw, I'd be all for paying more at places like Webb and City Park if it meant that they'd make course improvements, better maintenance, and probably green renovations as well.

I'm not sure what Webb's budget/finances look like. I just know what I'm paying at the counter and it's not far off from what you should expect for $23 with a cart.

Webb's biggest problem is that they have old, small greens that also get a lot of traffic. Compound that with the apathetic golfers out there who don't fix ball marks and are generally abusive to the course and you get what you have now. They need to just bite-the-bullet and completely renovate all the greens from the ground up with larger putting surfaces to handle the traffic.

Either way, this feels more like a Webb sucks thread than a Baton Rouge Golf sucks thread.

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fwiw, I'd be all for paying more at places like Webb and City Park if it meant that they'd make course improvements, better maintenance, and probably green renovations as well.

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That was my point.

You said Baton Rouge golf is underrated for the prices, but you are paying $30 to basically hit shots to a green. There is no putting, almost every green is wrecked. I would rather pay the $80 and actually play golf.

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The point is they hsve the money and equipment to do it but for some reason don’t. Also they obviously don’t have competent greenskeepers/supers to provide the maintenance and upkeep year round.
I don’t think anyone would mind paying more per round at City, Clark, or Webb if they were in playable shape.

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exactly this.

My last response from BREC’s director of golf:
Here’s an update on the putting greens at Webb GC.

The putting greens at Webb golf course are overseeded with rye grass during the winter months when the underlying Bermuda grass goes dormant. This year the transition from the rye grass back to the Bermuda grass has been rougher than recent years. The situation was made worse by invasive goosegrass that has slowly infiltrated the greens over the last couple of years. This goosegrass has become resistant to herbicides that used to kill it. Other golf courses in south Louisiana are also battling this goosegrass problem, this isn’t unique to Webb.

The Webb GC putting greens were aerified on 7/10. After the aerification we did some herbicide applications that appear to have been successful in eradicating most of the goosegrass. Unfortunately, killing the goosegrass left some considerable bare areas on a few greens. The greens on holes 8, 10, 14, and 16 are the most affected. Most of the greens still have good, but not complete, Bermuda grass coverage.

In the next few weeks, we will use a strong dose of nutrients along with verti-cutting and solid tine aerification to promote aggressive Bermuda grass growth in the hopes of filling in bare areas. Although hard to see, there is some grass alive in some of the areas that appear bare.

Hopefully we’ll see some strong improvement in the next couple of weeks. Depending on the speed of the improvement we may need to sod areas on a couple of greens. What happens in the next couple of weeks will determine if that’s needed.