re: Tell me about The Island in Plaquemine

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11 man Its so hard for me

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It’s a pretty diabolical golf hole. I always try to hit my 7 wood at that fairway bunker and hopefully be a bit short and leave myself 7 or 8 iron in.

I’ve always enjoyed the island
Years ago they had a $100 a month membership
It was a great value

The Island is a very nice course.

Don't forget gnat/mosquito repellent.

Yep lol

When i get past hole 2, i think about how hard 5-12 are going to be especially when the wind is blowing. I think holes 5-12 at the island will make or break your round.

The green on 2 needs to be tripled in size and that bunker left sude needs to be eliminated.

Based on the recommendation of someone on this board, I played The Island one time as I was visiting BR last summer. I 100% want to play it again. I played it as a single the day after they had punched the greens. Cool guys running the pro shop. I guess people can tell I am not from the area, so we were talking about sports, LSU's historical ownage of OU, what the hell is some Okie doing booking a tee time in Plaquemine, LA, etc. but when they told me "we just punched the greens yesterday" I said "Well that's my luck right there!" and they gave me 50% off my green fee

Y'all are bitching about #2. Yes it is a tricky 2nd-shot club selection and that hole threw me off. I probably doubled or tripled it.

I had some 9 or 10 year old kid named Augusta following me on the front 9 and I almost asked if he wanted to play with me because 1) his MILF mom was driving his cart, but more importantly 2) I was playing fast but he was keeping up with me, so I wanted to see the kid's game. maybe next time. Maybe someone here knows this kid? Might be a little prodigy.

I've told my wife I want another shot at this course, this year. 2 reasons: first, I really liked the layout. Second: coming from Oklahoma where yeah, it gets sort of humid in the summer.. I straight up was not prepared for the heat + humidity out there that day. I was drenched by hole #3. I remembered BR being humid in the summer, but it hits different at 56 years old versus 20.. At some point, I was on a short par 3 over water on the back side (15?) against the property line where the air was dead and I was out of drinking water.. seriously considered knocking on some doors to ask for water.. I thought I was about to give up the ghost.

Overall, this is a great course and a very fair test of golf. If this course was plopped in the OKC metro area, it would be packed all the time. You guys are lucky that grass grows so well in the area, we have issues sometimes in central OK. And we've had nice 'neighborhood' courses like The Island get sold for more neighborhood property development. Anyway.. can't wait to play this course again.

Augustin Gros(s) ?

From nola area. Kid can play. He paired up with us at Beaver Creek about this time last year or maybe 2024 for a practice round for a tournament he was playing in. Very nice young man and hit it a mile.

I've played the island about 7-8 times over the last 4 months. I love it out there. I can usually get an early tee time - 7:30-8:00 and be done by 11am.

Course in great shape, and the staff are super friendly. I played with some pro shop kids one day, and the next time I played they let me have a sleeve of pro v1x's for free.

I definitely recommend it, but like others have said, there are a few holes that can be challenging. It's not too bad if you keep it in play. 13-16 offer solid relief from the struggle that 10-12 is.