Golf in Washington

St. Landry Parish is Opelousas country, a large central Louisiana parish with a Creole and Cajun heritage distinct from both the coastal south and the Anglo-influenced north. Washington is a small town in the parish notable for its antique shops and its position on Bayou Courtableau, one of the historic waterways that connected interior Acadiana before roads replaced water transport. Red Oaks Golf Club takes its name from the hardwood species that mark the upland edges of St. Landry Parish's bayou bottomlands, offering a facility that serves both the immediate Washington community and the broader Opelousas-area population. The parish's agricultural identity — cotton, soybeans, and the sugarcane that edges in from the south — gives the landscape an open, field-framed character.