Golf in Gonzales

Ascension Parish has become one of Louisiana's fastest-growing areas as Baton Rouge's southern suburbs expand along the River Road and Interstate 10 corridor. Gonzales, the parish seat, bills itself as the jambalaya capital of the world — a claim it defends each year with a festival drawing competitors from across the state. Pelican Point Golf Club serves this growing community, a facility whose name references Louisiana's state bird in the rolling, water-adjacent terrain of the Ascension Parish lowlands. The Pelican State's namesake bird is a ubiquitous presence along the waterways here, and the petrochemical corridor between Gonzales and Baton Rouge ensures the local economy remains industrially anchored even as residential development accelerates.