Golf in Alexandria

Rapides Parish occupies the geographic center of Louisiana, where the piney hills of the north begin to flatten toward the alluvial south. Alexandria sits on the Red River and serves as the commercial and medical hub for Central Louisiana — a role that gives it a different tempo than the tourist-facing cities. Links on the Bayou and Oak Wings Golf Club represent the local golf stock, set in the transitional landscape between pine upland and river-bottom bottomland. The area lacks the distinctive cultural signature of Acadiana or New Orleans but compensates with an honest regional identity rooted in the timber economy and military presence at nearby Fort Polk. Summers are long and humid; winters mild.