Southern Trace Country Club

Southern Trace Country Club is the anchor of Shreveport's best-known purpose-built golf community, a two-guard-gated subdivision in south Shreveport off Youree Drive-area roads built around an 18-hole course that Golf Digest has ranked among Louisiana's best. Arthur Hills designed the original course in 1988; in 2020 the club's members bought the club outright from its prior management company, converting it to an equity, member-owned structure, and simultaneously undertook a major renovation -- architect Jim Lipe reworked the course itself while the club built a new 70,000-square-foot practice facility and added four dedicated pickleball courts alongside its seven lighted tennis courts and Olympic-size pool. The club also joined the Troon Privé network, giving Full Golf Members reciprocal access to more than 100 private clubs nationally at member rates. For a golf-oriented homebuyer, Southern Trace offers the clearest 'gated golf subdivision' living pattern in the Shreveport-Bossier market: homes inside the gates are actively marketed on their proximity to the course and the community's security and amenity package, with listed prices this research observed ranging from roughly $410,000 (an interior lot) up into the $1.3 million range for larger homes on the course. What buyers should understand clearly, though, is that the gated subdivision and the private club are two separate, separately governed entities -- the Southern Trace Property Owners Association runs the neighborhood's gates and common areas, while Southern Trace Country Club runs its own independent membership program with its own dues and application process. Buying inside the gates puts a resident next to the club, not automatically in it.