Hole 13

TPC Louisiana:

A Tour Worthy Test in The Crescent City.

New Orleans has been a stop on the PGA Tour for decades. The current home to the tour when in the Crescent City is TPC Louisiana. Located in the south bank suburb of Avondale, just off US 90 and south of the massive Huey P. Long Bridge, this Pete Dye design plays host to the world’s best each spring. Dye had tour players Steve Elkington and Kelly Gibson as consultants on this project built only a couple miles from the banks of the mighty Mississippi.  Dotted with ponds and traps along the routing and graced with massive cypress and pines the course stretches to a beastly 7400 yards at sea level from the tour decks. Typified by Dye trademarks, railway ties, small heavily contoured greens and tricky bunker complexes, the layout is a blend of brawn and precision.

Course Stats:

Access: Public Play.

Location:

Avondale, Louisiana

Editor's Shot Maker's Picks: TPC Louisiana

Feature Holes Descriptions:

The hardest hole on the course is the final of three par 4’s all playing over 430 yards from the middle deck. Hole 6 is a near right-angle dogleg left that wraps around a pond. Best played with a drive that flirts with the left edge of the fairway, the green is tucked behind the water and guarded by a front right bunker swallowing any approach pushed short and right avoiding a splashdown. Surrounded by three small pot bunkers this heavily contoured green is a stern putting challenge also. The number 2 handicap Hole 12  is a pure beast. This straight-away par 4 has a bunker left of the landing area, forcing you to stay right with the drive. The approach must clear a massive fairway bunker guarding the right side running all the way to the green.

Hole 6

The brawn is replaced with demands of precision on Hole 13. Another sharp dogleg left, this hole is protected by sand and a sentinel tree at the corner. The raised green is small and surrounded by treacherous pot bunkers for anything astray of the target. The par 4 16th is a gentle dogleg right with a nasty bunker complex and pond pinching the landing area. Best played with a left-to-right drive to shape around the sand,  your approach will then have to avoid being tugged left into the pond. Sharply sloped this green will test the flat stick to the fullest.

Hosting the PGA’s best every year, TPC Louisiana is a stern test. The tight corridors and smaller than average greens filled with lots of slope put a premium on both length and accuracy. Avoiding the pint-sized pot bunkers and numerous water hazards is essential to scoring a good round. Creative in design and the demands your game will face, TPC Louisiana must be on the itinerary when spending some time in the bayou.

Contact:

TPC Louisiana
11001 Lapalco Blvd.,
Avondale, Louisiana,
70094

866.665.2872

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