Warriors' Path State Park Golf Course

The Audubon Trail's strongest single course on the awards ledger. Routed across Macon Ridge in northeast Louisiana down through wooded creek bottoms, 7,400 yards par 72, links-meets-parkland with bayou backdrop, native-grass roughs, and bottomland hardwood corridors. Golf Digest named it America's Best New Course of 2007 at opening. Golfweek then ranked it the #1 Public Course in Louisiana for five consecutive years (2010-2014) and named it among Golfweek's Best Public Courses for seven consecutive years. The Audubon Trail's must-play, though the awards are 2010s-era and recent reviews flag maintenance variability worth checking before a long-haul drive. NOTE: Course's official site lists Randy Russell as designer (single architect, 2006 opening). DB record "Roy Bechtol & Randy Russell (2001)" appears to conflate this with another Russell design, worth manual verification before publishing the year/co-designer attribution.