Golf in Shreveport

Shreveport is northwest Louisiana's dominant city, sitting on the Red River at the point where Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas converge — a geography that has historically made it a crossroads for trade, culture, and transportation. David Toms, one of the PGA Tour's most successful players and a major champion, grew up here, and his David Toms 265 Foundation has worked to make golf accessible to the city's youth. The metro's course inventory is the state's deepest outside the New Orleans area: Southern Trace Country Club hosted Tour events in the 1990s; Shreveport Country Club anchors the private end of the market; Querbes Park provides recreational golf in a historic setting; East Ridge Country Club and Huntington Park round out the portfolio. The Red River's red-clay water gives the city its atmospheric color, and the piney hills of Caddo Parish provide topographic interest that south Louisiana cannot offer. Shreveport's casino economy, centered on the riverboat casinos along the Red River, supports a hospitality and entertainment sector that draws regional visitors who may also seek golf.