Golf in Ville Platte

Evangeline Parish takes its name from Longfellow's poem about the Acadian exile, and the cultural resonance is genuine. This is Cajun Country at its most rural and most insular. Ville Platte is the parish seat and the zydeco capital of the world by local consensus, a designation supported by the density of live-music venues relative to the town's size and the prominence of artists who emerged from this community. Smoked meat is another local obsession: the town has a smoked-meat festival and a distinctive barbecue style that differs from both Texas BBQ and south Louisiana cochon de lait traditions. Golf here occupies a modest footprint in a community where outdoor life revolves more around fishing, hunting, and music than course play, but the facility provides a local option in a parish that is otherwise a blank spot on the Louisiana golf map.