Carter Plantation Golf Club

Carter Plantation Golf Club: The first signature golf course design by native Louisianan David Toms - laid out in the attractive and quiet woodland environment of a historic plantation home. This excellent Stay&Play venue is one of the standard bearers for the Audubon Golf Trail.

The "low profile" simplicity of this well-crafted design, absent of tricked-up, weak or gimmicky holes, disguises its undoubted challenges. A backdrop of tall pines and cypresses, set against Louisiana swamp, creates a predominantly natural feel to the front-nine, while the back-nine is more noticeably flanked by housing.

Although relatively flat, with gently rippling fairways, there is plenty of stylish bunkering and an array of small ponds, that will need to be avoided. Pot bunkers as well as high-lipped, more expansive sand traps defend the often large and extravagantly sloping greens.

Slick run-off areas will carry your ball down and away from the putting surfaces, while dark, silent pools lie in wait beside some of the nicely elevated greens. Accurate shots will be needed into the pudding-bowl greens at the par-3 3rd and 12th holes.

Pick of the holes: an enchanting woodland backdrop and tee-to-green shot across water, arguably makes the 5th the best of the par-3s. Occupying a more open setting, the near-island green of the 17th also creates a memorable "short" hole. The long-par-5 13th finishes opposite the 17th in this more airy and spacious setting, the same small lake menacingly lurking at the back and leftside of the 13th green.