Golf Facility Name: | English Turn Golf and Country Club |
Location: | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
Pushpin Map: | USA#USA Louisiana |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Coordinates: | 29.906°N -89.955°W |
Elevation: | Sea level |
Type: | Private |
Holes: | 18 |
Tournaments: | New Orleans PGA Tour event (1989–2004, 2006) American Jr Golf Assoc New Orleans event Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Golf Championship |
Website: | englishturngolf.com |
Par1: | 72 |
Rating1: | 75.0 |
Slope1: | 142 [1] |
The English Turn Golf and Country Club is a private golf course and country club in the southern United States, located in New Orleans, Louisiana.[2] Formerly a venue of the PGA Tour, its par-72 championship course measures from the It is the home course for the Tulane Green Wave and the University of New Orleans Privateers college golf teams.[3]
Southeast of downtown, the course was designed by Jack Nicklaus for the New Orleans PGA Tour event and opened The event, previously held at Lakewood Country Club, was played at English Turn for sixteen editions (1989–2004), then moved west to TPC Louisiana in 2005. Damage to that course by Hurricane Katrina in late summer caused a one-year return
For the first edition in 1989, the course was set at and the winner's share was, Tim Simpson was the champion, two strokes ahead of runners-up Greg Norman and Hal Sutton.
The tour event at English Turn went by many names:
The venue offers chipping and putting practice areas.[6] The facility also has six tennis courts and a junior Olympic-size pool used as the home of a swim team.[7] [8]