English Turn Golf and Country Club

English Turn Golf and Country Club
Club information
Coordinates	29°54′22″N 89°57′18″W / 29.906°N 89.955°W
Location	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Elevation	Sea level
Established	1988; 36 years ago
Type	Private
Total holes	18
Events hosted	New Orleans PGA Tour event (1989–2004, 2006); American Jr Golf Assoc New Orleans event; Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Golf Championship
Website	englishturngolf.com
Designed by	Jack Nicklaus
Par	72
Length	7,078 yards (6,472 m)
Course rating	75.0
Slope rating	142

The English Turn Golf and Country Club is a private golf course and country club in the southern United States, located in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[2] Formerly a venue of the PGA Tour, its par-72 championship course measures 7,078 yards (6,472 m) from the back tees.^[3]^[4] It is the home course for the Tulane Green Wave and the University of New Orleans Privateers college golf teams.^[5]

Course history

Southeast of downtown, the course was designed by Jack Nicklaus for the New Orleans PGA Tour event and opened in 1988.^[2]^[6]^[7] The event, previously held at Lakewood Country Club, was played at English Turn for sixteen editions (1989–2004), then moved west to TPC Louisiana in 2005. Damage to that course by Hurricane Katrina in late summer caused a one-year return in 2006.^[8]

For the first edition in 1989, the course was set at 7,106 yards (6,498 m) and the winner's share was, $135,000;^[9] Tim Simpson was the champion, two strokes ahead of runners-up Greg Norman and Hal Sutton.^[9]

Tournaments

PGA Tour

The tour event at English Turn went by many names:

USF&G Classic (1989–1991)^[10]^[11]
Freeport-McMoRan Golf Classic (1992–1993)^[10]^[11]
Freeport-McMoRan Classic (1994–1995)
Freeport-McDermott Classic (1996–1998)
Compaq Classic of New Orleans (1999–2002)^[11]
HP Classic of New Orleans (2003–2004)
Zurich Classic of New Orleans (2006)^[11]

American Junior Golf Association

American Junior Golf Association's New Orleans event (1989–2003)^[5]

College

Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate Golf Championship (2010–present)^[5]
(Tulane Green Wave golf annual home meet)

Club facilities

The venue offers chipping and putting practice areas.^[12] The facility also has six tennis courts and a junior Olympic-size pool used as the home of a swim team.^[13]^[14]

References

^ "Course Rating and Slope Database™ - English Turn Golf and Country Club". USGA. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Golf Course Details". englishturngolf.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "New Orleans Golf Courses". gulfcoastgolf.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "English Turn". bigeasygolf.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Tulane Golf Facilities". tulanegreenwave.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "English Turn Golf & Country Club". nicklaus.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "English Turn Golf & Country Club". hole19golf.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "PGA Tour at New Orleans". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. May 1, 2006. p. C6.
^ ^a ^b "Simpson finds solutions". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. March 27, 1989. p. 2B.
^ ^a ^b "A Brief History of the Zurich Classic of New Orleans". lgagolf.org. Archived from the original on 2017-08-19. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Our History – Zurich Classic of New Orleans". zurichgolfclassic.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "Practice facilities". englishturngolf.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "Tennis". englishturngolf.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
^ "Swimming". englishturngolf.com. Retrieved 2018-03-13.