New Orleans Metro Golf Living Guide

This market's golf character is defined by variety of model rather than a single shared type. English Turn is the metro's only true purpose-built gated golf-residential community with national tournament pedigree (it hosted the PGA Tour's New Orleans event under several sponsor names from 1989 through 2004, and once more in 2006). The rest of the qualifying anchors are older, in-place clubs that developed a residential relationship with an existing or adjacent neighborhood over decades rather than being built as a single master-planned project: Chateau Golf & Country Club and Chateau Estates in Kenner (both dating to 1972), Cypress Lakes Country Club (opened 1978/79 as Ormond Country Club, rebranded after a 2010 bankruptcy) and the 500-plus-home Ormond Estates neighborhood in Destrehan, Metairie Country Club (founded 1922, one of the rare Gulf South examples of a Seth Raynor design) and its tiny 51-home Metairie Club Estates enclave, and Timberlane Golf & Recreation (opened 1959 as the first private club on the West Bank) and Timberlane Estates, where a mandatory parcel tax bundles golf and pool access directly into property ownership -- the single clearest bundled-golf mechanism found anywhere in this market.

Golf-oriented buyers evaluating the New Orleans metro are really choosing between several distinct geographic and parish contexts:

- **West Bank / Orleans-Plaquemines line (English Turn).** A genuinely suburban-feeling, gated, guard-secured enclave inside Orleans Parish, roughly 8 miles from downtown -- unusual for the otherwise urban parish it sits in. - **Kenner (Chateau Golf & Country Club).** An east-bank Jefferson Parish suburb near Louis Armstrong International Airport, with Chateau Estates as an established, non-gated (unconfirmed either way) neighborhood built around the club since 1972. - **Metairie (Metairie Country Club).** The metro's largest, most established Jefferson Parish suburb, directly adjacent to Orleans Parish, where a small, exclusive 51-home gated enclave (Metairie Club Estates) sits inside a much larger, otherwise ungated suburban fabric. - **Gretna (Timberlane Golf & Recreation).** A West Bank Jefferson Parish community directly across the river from downtown New Orleans, where Timberlane Estates offers the market's clearest bundled-golf arrangement. - **Destrehan (Cypress Lakes Country Club).** St. Charles Parish, roughly 25 miles west of downtown on the Mississippi River's east bank -- the most outlying of the five qualifying anchors' locations, centered on the 500-plus-home Ormond Estates neighborhood.

Buyers should also know about several well-known New Orleans golf names that did NOT clear this platform's qualification bar and are not covered as anchors here: TPC Louisiana (Avondale, Jefferson Parish), Lakewood Golf Club (Algiers, Orleans Parish), Audubon Park Golf Course and Bayou Oaks at City Park (both ordinary public courses in Orleans Parish), Fashion Golf & Country Club (Hahnville, St. Charles Parish), Grand Ridge Golf Club (f/k/a Willowdale Country Club, Luling, St. Charles Parish), and New Orleans Country Club (Uptown, Orleans Parish) -- see the notable facts section for why each was excluded.

No qualifying club in this market automatically bundles membership into a home purchase except one: Timberlane Estates, where a mandatory $1,950 annual per-parcel tax includes golf and pool access for that specific subdivision's homeowners. Everywhere else, access is purchased or applied for separately from the home -- English Turn's gated community does not include club membership (the club is semi-private and open to daily-fee play under Troon management since 2025); Chateau Golf & Country Club and Cypress Lakes Country Club are both private clubs whose membership is not confirmed to be tied to their surrounding neighborhoods' homeownership; and Metairie Country Club remains strictly invitation-only regardless of whether a buyer lives in the small Metairie Club Estates enclave beside it. Buyers should never assume that a home inside or near one of these communities comes with club access, and should confirm current membership terms, waitlists, and fees directly with each club.

Home price data was not independently researched for any of this market's five qualifying communities this session -- this is an explicit gap in this pass's research, not a silent omission. Metairie Club Estates is described as a small, prestigious enclave of only 51 homes; English Turn Estates spans 617 lots across roughly 2,000 acres; Ormond Estates and Timberlane Estates are both described as larger, more established subdivisions (500-plus homes at Ormond Estates specifically). Buyers should treat current price-range research as a next step with a local real estate specialist rather than relying on this guide for pricing.

New Orleans metro golf living sits inside a much broader, older, culturally distinctive metro identity -- Mardi Gras, historic architecture, a globally known food and music scene, and a river-and-levee geography rather than a golf-resort-first lifestyle. None of the five qualifying clubs here markets itself primarily as a golf destination; each is one amenity within an established residential community or historic club culture. Buyers relocating for golf specifically should set realistic expectations: this is a metro where golf competes with a much larger set of reasons people already live here, not a market built around golf the way a Florida or Carolina golf-resort community is.

The market spans the Mississippi River's two banks. Orleans Parish (English Turn on the West Bank; excluded candidates Lakewood, Audubon Park, Bayou Oaks, and New Orleans Country Club all also in Orleans Parish) sits at the metro's historic core. Jefferson Parish (Chateau Golf & Country Club in Kenner on the east bank, Metairie Country Club in Metairie on the east bank, Timberlane Golf & Recreation in Gretna on the West Bank, and excluded candidate TPC Louisiana in Avondale on the West Bank) wraps around Orleans Parish on both sides of the river. St. Charles Parish (Cypress Lakes Country Club in Destrehan, and excluded/verify-only candidates Grand Ridge Golf Club in Luling and Fashion Golf & Country Club in Hahnville) extends furthest west along the river's east bank, roughly 25-30 miles from downtown.