Golf in Sulphur

Calcasieu Parish's western communities are part of the Lake Charles metro in an industrial rather than recreational sense — sulphur was mined here from the Frasch process beginning in the late nineteenth century, and the city's name is a frank acknowledgment of that chemical heritage. Frasch Golf Course at the municipal level carries the same industrial nomenclature, named for Herman Frasch, the chemist who developed the hot-water injection process for mining native sulfur deposits. This kind of industrial-heritage place-naming is honest in a way that generic resort names are not. The course serves the broader Lake Charles metro's western residential communities, offering a municipal option separate from the casino-resort golf at L'Auberge and the private-club options elsewhere in Calcasieu Parish.