The Oaks Golf Club

Dr. Gil Morgan — the seven-time PGA Tour winner and three-time PGA Tour Champions leader in earnings — designed The Oaks Golf Club in Pass Christian in 1998, a 6,885-yard par-72 layout routed through mature live oaks and rolling Pine Belt terrain on Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Slope rating 131; USGA rating 72.5 from the tips. The course earned National Golf Course Owners Association's 'Golf Course of the Year for the Mississippi Gulf Coast' in 2003, and Golf Digest has named it among the top ten courses in Mississippi multiple times. Readers of Coast Magazine have voted The Oaks 'Best Course on the Coast' in multiple years. Moss-draped live oaks frame almost every hole, with creeks and ponds threading the inland stretch. Peak green fee $45-75. Pair with Fallen Oak, Grand Bear, Shell Landing, and The Preserve for a five-card coastal Mississippi buddies trip.