re: Why are they closing the LSU golf course?

Golf doesn’t seem to be that big in Baton Rouge. I just moved from there and I can’t think of seeing that many courses the whole time I was there. (Highland, Old Perkins, Baker, ?) As a comparison, there are 35 to 50 courses in the Birmingham area where I moved. There are about 7 or so within 5 miles of my house.

Funny enough, even though I lived in Baton Rouge about 8 years, I don’t know what I would say the big outdoor activity is. When I lived in Texas, everybody seemed to have a boat and had a hunting lease. I never saw a lot of boats in Baton Rouge either. No one in my neighborhood hunted either. Watching their kid’s sports and watching LSU sports are about all that anyone participated in as an outdoor activity.

Had midnight sex many times on that front nine. Never hit a car off #9 but came close a few times.

Played Webb lately? The greens are horrendous

Isn't that where they are building a new basketball arena?

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You should be able to afford a country club. If not, you are a poor and need to learn basketball. Golf is for the elite and talented,

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some of the most filthy rich folks I’ve ever come across are absolute dog shite at golf.

Was laughing last night retelling a story of when some apparently azn tycoon billionaire picked up my ball and put it in his pocket at Pebble right where I think the 12th and 9th fairways run perpendicular. Apparently it was funny on several levels, me giving this billionaire a lecture on etiquette and him reach in his pocket and handing me my ball he stole.


Golf is the great equalizer imo imho fwiw

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My dad broke a winshield on 9. I hit the CEBA building quite a few times which was surprising bc I usually played a draw but i would hit a push slice on that hole

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Was 9 the par 3 that faced south and ran right along Nicholson? That was absolutely the source of my vehicle encounters

We used to skip class to go drink beer and play a round. It was really cheap back then too with a student ID.

Yeah, Enquist is being so benevolent saying it won’t cost LSU anything. It will cost the Public mightily and developers are not doing this project to lose money. These economic development districts are created in areas where there are no residents to avoid having to conduct an election to increase sales taxes. They know voters will reject such increase. Sales taxes in BR are the highest in the country now and will be insane when you make a purchase inside their “district.”

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No one in my neighborhood hunted either

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You have to get out of the city to be around the hunters and boat people. I guess its still like that, I remember growing up, people from baton rouge we knew were not too familiar with hunting and fishing unless they were from a family who had a camp somewhere. And I am not that far from BR, however; where I am a lot of people hunt, etc.

Worked at the course and at the range in the early/ mid 80’s. A girl was murdered jogging on the path next to the railroad track and was found many weeks later. Her body was found in the tall grass 20yds from the 18th green. The smell was horrendous, and everyone thought it was a dead cow in a field across from the clubhouse where Walk-Ons is now.

Bc it’s losing money. Pretty simple