Golf in Minden

Webster Parish covers the northwestern Louisiana piney hills between Shreveport and the Arkansas state line, a region of timber, agriculture, and small-town life that has been less transformed by the casino economy than the adjacent parishes to the south and west. Minden is the parish seat and the commercial center for a quiet, working-class parish with deep ties to the timber industry that shaped north Louisiana for over a century. Pine Hills Golf Course wears its local landscape in its name — the loblolly and longleaf pines that cover the Webster Parish upland give courses here a natural frame that the flat south cannot replicate. Winters in northwest Louisiana bring actual cool weather and occasional frost.