Oak Harbor Golf Club

Oak Harbor Golf Club, designed by Lee E. Schmidt and opened in 1992, sits at the center of a genuinely dense golf-residential Planned Unit Development in Slidell comprising seven named communities: Cypress Lakes, The Fairways, Grand Champions, The Inlets, Mariner's Cove, Masters Point, and The Moorings. Conceived in 1986 by planner Jack Westerbrooke, Oak Harbor was designed from the outset around shared waterway and fairway frontage, and at least two of its sub-communities -- The Fairways and Masters Point -- are marketed specifically as gated, golf-course-lot subdivisions with home sites laid directly along the course, a materially stronger and more deliberate golf-residential integration than an ordinary subdivision that happens to border a public course.

The course itself operates as a confirmed semi-private facility: it is open to public tee times (and has been recognized in golf-media rankings as a leading New Orleans-area semi-private course) while also offering a real, separately priced annual membership program (Individual, Couple, and Family tiers, plus a cart-inclusive option). That combination -- meaningful, priced semi-private membership privileges layered onto genuinely bundled, gated golf-lot residential development across multiple named sub-communities -- distinguishes Oak Harbor from an ordinary public course with houses nearby, even though, unlike Money Hill, no HOA at Oak Harbor requires or automatically includes club membership.