Golf Course Review: The Golf Club at Audubon Park, May 2025

It had been since October of last year since I did a Golf Course Review of The Golf Club at Audubon Park. After playing a 4-day tournament over Memorial Day weekend, I wanted to get a review in on Wednesday, May 28th, before the rain came that afternoon and later in the week. Audubon Park was a perfect choice for a quick round. This also allowed me to try something different and bring more commentary into the video part of the review.

I had just gotten back from 4 days of golf playing in the Deep South Fourball in Marksville, LA. A fun and very competitive event that I will do a blog post about next week. However, It taught me one thing. Even though my car accident was back in mid-January, my body is not 100% recovered, and I am still dealing with some pain. This was yet another reason I chose to play The Golf Club at Audubon Park. A short, executive golf course with mostly par 3s would be easier on my body.

One of the first things you will notice when arriving in the parking lot is that the new golf shop is complete. They moved into it sometime in mid to late November last year. It is very nice and laid out very well. It is what you would expect and similar to the previous golf shop, except they have a sofa and a TV. There is all your usual stuff with plenty of merchandise and golf essentials like golf balls, tees, etc... The only thing I think would have been better would have been if they used the other side of the building where the shop overlooks the golf course. Besides a better view, the shop could see what's going on toward the first tee and other areas of the golf course, like they could from the original golf shop. Regardless, it is nice to see the trailer in the parking lot gone and a permanent place for golfers to check in.

Without a driving range, I did my usual pre-round warm-up and stretching with my GolfFOREVER training system near the practice putting green. The look of that green had me worried. You can see in the opening part of the video that the green looks diseased or damaged. I did, however, notice some verticutting had been done around the green and the first tee, so the look could be from some maintenance that hasn't healed. There were some very good areas on the practice green to try a few putts, and those areas rolled very well. It had me hopeful that the golf course could be good, and only the practice green looked bad.

Before I get to the overall ratings, I want to add something about the bunkers. I was in 4 bunkers in total during my round. One of them was filmed, and that bunker was near perfect. The others I did not film and only got a picture of the one on hole 18 (below), but they had what appeared to look like concrete. I noticed it first on hole 13 along the face of the bunker and mentioned it in the video. The sand at the bottom where my ball was was a decent lie, and the sand felt soft under my feet, even though it looked packed down some. The next bunker on 14, I did not notice any concrete look. The bunker sand felt firm but did not look hard. It wasn't until I played my shot that I felt the jolt of a hard impact that hurt my wrist a little. After my shot, I brushed away some sand with my foot, and lo and behold, there was that hard bottom that looked like concrete. The next two bunkers I was in, I could see and feel the concrete. I played those as ground under repair and did not risk injuring myself. I am not sure if it is actual concrete or something else, but it sure looks and feels like concrete. If you tap a club on it it sounds just like tapping your club on the cart path. Since the first bunker I was in on hole 7 looks good and very playable, I feel like the bunkers are something they are working on. However, I think all the bunkers need to be addressed immediately, as a golfer could get hurt. At the very least, if they are repairing them, then the ones that are not repaired yet should be marked with white paint as ground under repair to keep golfers from playing out of them and risking injury.

Overall: 3.5 out of 5

Tee Boxes: 3.5 out of 5

The tee boxes were in pretty decent condition. They all had recently been verticut, but the grass was good on them. You just had to avoid the lines cut into the turf. They were also pretty level, and the markers were set apart a good width without being too wide, where the teeing area gets beat up by golfers. They finally fixed the back tee box on hole 7, and that hole now plays back to its correct yardage on the card. One thing I would like to see Audubon do is add sand boxes on all the par-3 teeing areas. I went through 4 bottles of sand on the front 9 alone to fill in divots on the tee boxes. Sadly, most golfers will leave those bottles on the carts and not carry the sand to the tee box to fill in their divots. This could go a long way in golfers being able to help maintain the golf course. The only "bad" tee box was number 9, which still has a good-sized low area in it and grass missing on part of it. It does look a lot better than the last time I was there, but it is surprising they haven't filled in that low area and leveled it off.

Fairways: 4 out of 5

There are not many full fairways on the golf course, but the ones they have were in great condition. Even the approach fairways on all the par-3 holes were good. The grass was full and cut to a good height. They looked good from the tee boxes as well, with a definition between the fairway and the rough.

Greens: 3 out of 5

This was a hard one to rate. For the most part, the greens were pretty good. The entire front nine was great except for a few small areas on two or three holes. The ball rolled well, and they were faster than they looked. The back nine was a different story. Starting on hole 10, which looked horrible and only had a small area of good turf where they cut the pin. There was only one other green, hole 15, where the majority of the green was pretty rough. The rest of the back nine greens were either as good as the front or only had a small area or two around the edges.

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With my entire experience out there, the golf course was very playable and better than my last visit. They are obviously working on making the golf course better, and it was evident by the amount of maintenance I saw on the golf course. Which reminds me, there was one instance where I was waiting for a maintenance guy to finish blowing grass clippings off the fairway approach. He saw me and waved me up while he was a good 40 yards short of the green. I was expecting him to stop there, but he just turned around and continued driving towards the green I was hitting at. Needless to say, it rattled me a bit as I was worried he might drive up to the green and I could end up hitting him. I mean, do golfers a favor and either pull over to the side or finish what you're doing and move on.