Golf Course Review: LaTour Golf Club, May 2025

After months away from playing due to a car accident, I chose to do the first golf course review of 2025 at LaTour Golf Club. There are a few reasons, but the main one is that LaTour has one of the best practice facilities in southeast Louisiana. It is a great place to work on your game before a round of golf after so much time away.

Due to the number of golfers and pace of play, the video part (at bottom) of this review isn't that long. I didn't want to hold any other golfers up and wanted to keep pace with the group ahead. Hopefully, next time I go to LaTour to do a review, I will have more time to get more video for you.

Another reason I chose LaTour Golf Club is that they recently started constructing a new permanent clubhouse. I saw the plans they shared on social media, but I wanted to see for myself to get a better understanding of where it would be and how big. The location is perfect, directly behind the 18th green, and should include a patio/porch where you can see golfers finish on 18 and 9 greens. I would expect the completion to be somewhere around the end of the year or early next year.

LaTour Golf Club is one of my favorite golf courses within an hour of downtown New Orleans. You can always expect good conditions, especially greens. It was no different this time out. The golf course can also be challenging, depending on the tee you play from and the wind. On Wednesday, the wind was strong and made the golf course more challenging.

After being away from golf for a few months, we decided to play the Blue tees, which are around 6,500 yards. With the wind around 20-25 mph, that was plenty enough golf course for me right now. Shooting 75 really helped with the confidence, but do to the speed of the greens in combination with the wind, I left a few shots out there.

LaTour keeps the practice facilities in good condition, and they are a good preview of what to expect out on the golf course. The short game green even has some new fairway cut areas, allowing golfers to practice a larger selection of shots. What you get on the range and practice greens is what you can expect on the golf course.

Overall: 4 out of 5

Tee Boxes: 4 out of 5

The tee boxes are all consistent. The grass cut height is good, and the tee marker set up is usually really good. Meaning they keep the tee markers 6 yards apart and line them up towards your target. There were a few par 3s where the divot pattern looked like it was from the day before, and the markers weren't moved, however, there were not so many divots that you couldn't find a place to tee up your golf ball, even if you don't use a tee on par 3s.

Fairways: 3.5 out of 5

The fairways are very good. They are cut low enough to get plenty of roll but not as tight as I'd like, so you can generate a good amount of spin on the ball. A perfect height for most recreational golfers, and being just a fraction long helps protect the grass when we lack rain and it is hot. There were two holes, 9 and 12, where the mower missed a very small section about 3 to 5 inches wide by 1 to 3 feet long, but all in all, the fairways were very good. I would like to see more definition between fairway and rough, but I'm sure that will come with this heat as the rough grows out.

Greens: 4.5 out of 5

The greens at LaTour are always really good. Even if they are rolling slower than normal, they roll pure. This round, they were fast and rolling great. The wind was a factor as you could hit a right-to-left breaking putt, and it wouldn't break because the wind from the left was holding it out there. Wind really only affects putts when the greens are rolling true and fast. The greens were firm but also receptive. The golf ball may take a big bounce, but it would also stop pretty quickly. Downwind was much harder to stop, and you would have to adjust to land the ball on the front of a green, even if the pin location was all the way in the back.

The only thing LaTour needs to upgrade right now is its flagsticks. The current ones looked like they were about to snap in the wind on Wednesday. They are light and thin, which allows for a lot of bending. So much so, they were nearly bending to the edge of the hole. If a flagstick bends that much and repeatedly hits the edge of the hole, it will damage it. Hopefully, LaTour doesn't get too many high wind days until they can get the heavier, thicker flagsticks like many other courses have gone to.

I wasn't in a bunker all day, but for the most part, they looked pretty good. In the pictures and video, they may look unkept, but that is a project I know they are working on. The rough look and decreasing the size of the bunkers is on purpose, but the grass around the edges that looks out of place just hasn't fully grown in yet.

I would recommend LaTour Golf Club 9 out of 10 times to anyone looking for a fun challenge at a good rate with good golf course conditions. Things should only improve with a full clubhouse.