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re: Hearing LSU Golf Course Closing on May 9th
Posted on 3/22/26 at 8:15 pm to Swampy7557
Posted on 3/22/26 at 8:15 pm to Swampy7557
La tech used to have a course
.. not squire. Maybe they closed it too. Been a hot min.
Miss State has a decent track. UNC has an amazing track open to public
.. not squire. Maybe they closed it too. Been a hot min.
Miss State has a decent track. UNC has an amazing track open to public
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Posted on 3/22/26 at 8:45 pm to BallChamp00
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LSU is an agronomy school. No idea how they don’t have classes that work on the course and run it.
You’ve just injected common sense into this discussion.
Posted on 3/22/26 at 9:36 pm to ElderTiger
LSU is an agriculture and mechanical college with an agronomy department. Turfgrass management is in the horticulture department but I don’t think a turf student or three, if they even have that many, is going to help LSUs golf course. Just a guess but they probably have more guys with turf degrees working for the athletic department than students and professors combined
I do understand what you guys are saying but the fact is if LSU wanted a good golf course on campus they would have one.
I do understand what you guys are saying but the fact is if LSU wanted a good golf course on campus they would have one.
Posted on 3/22/26 at 9:39 pm to Trapper2000
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Just a guess but they probably have more guys with turf degrees working for the athletic department than students and professors combined
I do understand what you guys are saying but the fact is if LSU wanted a good golf course on campus they would have one.
Correct. And most of the schools that have been mentioned have too notch turf grass programs and research extensions.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 7:24 am to CapitalTiger
No, it appears that LSLU/TAF would rather have a 2,500-seat arena owned and operated by a private developer from which the university gets little or nothing. Go figure.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:47 am to Trapper2000
I was told years ago by the super(Steve I think) that LSU agronomy department was not allowed to touch the golf course. Maybe they wanted it to fail. But also told that the course could only be a golf course because the person who donated the land didn't want it to be a parking lot.
I haven't played it in a while because I went there one day and they told me that they didn't have any tee times available. Only had maybe 10 cars in the parking lot and maybe that many on the course. I sat there for 20 minutes to see if anyone else would show up to fill those tee times, nobody except the 3 guys I was supposed to play with. This was the second time it happened to us but the 1st time Steve told them to let us on. May go back before the close just for the sake of it.
I haven't played it in a while because I went there one day and they told me that they didn't have any tee times available. Only had maybe 10 cars in the parking lot and maybe that many on the course. I sat there for 20 minutes to see if anyone else would show up to fill those tee times, nobody except the 3 guys I was supposed to play with. This was the second time it happened to us but the 1st time Steve told them to let us on. May go back before the close just for the sake of it.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 10:30 am to Trapper2000
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I do understand what you guys are saying but the fact is if LSU wanted a good golf course on campus they would have one
It's been quite a few years now, but I worked with LSU facilities and the golf course for a project in one of my classes. I wasn't playing as much then and have no clue what the condition of the course was at the time, but I don't recall any of the horror stories I've heard here recently. I do recall the yearly cost for watering, fertilizing, etc. was at a scale I couldn't quite comprehend at the time. I get it more now that I've worked for some time and understand the total cost of maintaining a business. In any case, the course didn't make enough revenue to cover it's own costs if I recall correctly and had to be supported by the university. That's just a recipe to be on the chopping block. I'm sure they could increase green fees prior to letting it go to shite, but then with students being your primary demographic, you risk losing your base customer.
Just seems like the only way for it to work as a cheap, decent course, is to just break even. And that's a lot of land to set aside to just break even.
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Posted on 3/23/26 at 11:55 am to lsuoilengr
Got to play Rawls on consecutive days on 2018. Great track. Also windier than I can ever remember outside of Scotland.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 12:57 pm to HarryVardon
LSU finally went public: the LSU Golf Course will close in 2026. And the explanation feels very familiar.
Just like BREC’s “efficiency” layoffs, LSU is using vague language about “operational priorities” while insisting the land has “no planned use.” But you don’t shut down a 60-year public course that costs almost nothing to operate unless something else is driving the decision.
The pattern is the same: remove the public asset first, explain later.
The timing says even more. Silence until the community started asking questions — then a sudden announcement with no plan attached
Public land deserves honesty and openness with the public.
Just like BREC’s “efficiency” layoffs, LSU is using vague language about “operational priorities” while insisting the land has “no planned use.” But you don’t shut down a 60-year public course that costs almost nothing to operate unless something else is driving the decision.
The pattern is the same: remove the public asset first, explain later.
The timing says even more. Silence until the community started asking questions — then a sudden announcement with no plan attached
Public land deserves honesty and openness with the public.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 3:47 pm to BallChamp00
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LSU is an agronomy school. No idea how they don’t have classes that work on the course and run it.
This is without question my biggest complaint about the whole LSU golf course. With the amount of students, why not just charge every student 5 to 10 dollars a semester on there fee bill? This is guaranteed income for the golf course each semester. Also, make classes around the golf course like Mississippi state and other schools do. I get that the land is valuable and they want to make the new arena, but why not use some of the other land and build a new one on river road? Baton Rouge public golf is about to be more of a nightmare than it already is.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 4:12 pm to Gings5
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Curious where you got 16k rounds from?
He made it up
Posted on 3/23/26 at 4:23 pm to tigerbait17
Baton Rouge is a mess.
We can’t use public schools here unless the kids can get into. BRH or Liberty. The crime is ridiculous and worsening. They are fricking with our park system now which was actually one of the good things. LSU just keeps shitting itself whether it be the ridiculous woke renaming episode or the tailgate shooting.
I don’t even really know who to be mad at. A little of the shoe store lady business report dude, Brec? LSU foundation? Baton Rouge area foundation? I thought these people were helping this place. Everything I’ve seen them do lately makes me shake my head.
LSU golf course was decent back in the day. When they took the old front 9 for parking it was the start of LSU not giving a frick anymore.
We can’t use public schools here unless the kids can get into. BRH or Liberty. The crime is ridiculous and worsening. They are fricking with our park system now which was actually one of the good things. LSU just keeps shitting itself whether it be the ridiculous woke renaming episode or the tailgate shooting.
I don’t even really know who to be mad at. A little of the shoe store lady business report dude, Brec? LSU foundation? Baton Rouge area foundation? I thought these people were helping this place. Everything I’ve seen them do lately makes me shake my head.
LSU golf course was decent back in the day. When they took the old front 9 for parking it was the start of LSU not giving a frick anymore.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 4:27 pm to Bendelow
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Public land deserves honesty and openness with the public.
Based on the other thread addressing this, they are building a new arena in lieu of renovating the River Center and PMAC. At least thats how they spun it. Seems they are telling you exactly what they are doing. There is your openness.
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Just like BREC’s “efficiency” layoffs, LSU is using vague language about “operational priorities” while insisting the land has “no planned use.
need a little better explanation of your beef with BREC's layoffs. What is vague about any of this? And based on all the bitching on this board the last few years regarding the course, I'm surpriwed at all the butthurt. All yall did was bitch about the course conditions. I'd think closure was pretty well telegraphed in the last few years.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 4:50 pm to slidingstop
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Based on the other thread addressing this, they are building a new arena in lieu of renovating the River Center and PMAC. At least thats how they spun it. Seems they are telling you exactly what they are doing. There is your openness.
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need a little better explanation of your beef with BREC's layoffs. What is vague about any of this?
Nothing he said in that post made any sense
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:15 pm to Swagga
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The LSU golf course has always been a travesty.
The mid 2000s beg to differ. Mike Johnson had the course in great shape.
Never was or going to be Uclub caliber but it was one of the best public courses around when he was in charge.
Posted on 3/24/26 at 5:24 am to kc8876
An LSU spokesperson told WAFBTV yesterday that the course had more than 15,000 rounds in 2025.
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