English Turn

With numerous title sponsors, the PGA Tour’s New Orleans Open or "Classic" was held at English Turn Golf and Country Club on multiple occasions between 1989 and 2006. Designed by Jack Nicklaus, the course has water in play at each and every one of its 18 holes.

“It possesses plenty of Jack’s traditional strategic flair – as well as one of his higher predictability quotients,” remarked Daniel Wexler in The American Private Golf Club Guide. “Best known is a set of oft-televised finishers that includes the 442-yard 16th (with sand everywhere), the 207-yard 17th (water and sand left), and especially the 471-yard 18th, a visually impressive par 4 (water and a 300-yard waste bunker define its left side) which annually ranked among the Tour’s toughest…

... and the 540-yard 15th, a conceptually interesting par 5 played to an island green – a hole that pops up regularly within the Nicklaus portfolio. Hardly Jack’s best, but not without a few good moments as well.”