Golf in Youngsville

Lafayette Parish's southern expansion has found Youngsville, a city that has grown from a small Cajun prairie community into one of Louisiana's fastest-developing municipalities as families move south from Lafayette's increasingly dense core. The growth is recent and rapid enough that Youngsville still feels like a place becoming itself, with new subdivisions pushing into former sugarcane fields and the service infrastructure working to keep pace. Les Vieux Chênes Municipal Golf Course — the name translates to "the old oaks" in French — provides community golf in a city that has retained its Francophone naming even as its demographic base has become more diverse. The surrounding flat Cajun prairie, carved by bayous and planted with rice and cane, gives the course its characteristic open horizon.