Golf in New Orleans

New Orleans sits at the toe of the Mississippi's boot, a city built below sea level between the river and Lake Pontchartrain on land reclaimed from swamp. Its cultural gravity — jazz, Mardi Gras, Creole cuisine, the French Quarter's Spanish-colonial architecture — is without parallel in American cities. Three courses serve the city proper: English Turn Golf and Country Club has a Fazio design and Tour-event history, Lakewood Country Club is among the older private establishments in the metro, and City Park's North Course offers accessible golf within the largest urban park in the country. Golf here is played on flat, subtropical terrain where water management is structural and the tree canopy — live oaks, palms, magnolias — defines the visual character as much as any designed feature.