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Few municipal courses in America carry a name with as much moral weight as this one. Joseph M. Bartholomew was a Black golf course architect who designed or remodeled dozens of courses across Louisiana and the South during the early-to-mid 20th century — yet was legally barred from playing the very courses he built. The New Orleans course that now bears his name is a recognition long overdue, honoring a man whose talent shaped regional golf while Jim Crow kept him off the fairways.
The course sits within a city that defies easy categorization — a place of deep culture, complicated history, and a relationship with the land defined by water, heat, and resilience. Golf in New Orleans is a year-round pursuit, played through subtropical humidity, afternoon thunderstorms, and the flat, below-sea-level terrain that characterizes so much of the metro area.
As a public municipal layout, Bartholomew serves the everyday golfer and the local community — accessible, unpretentious, and rooted in a neighborhood rather than a resort corridor. That combination of democratic access and a name steeped in civil rights history gives this course a significance no scorecard stat can capture.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartholomew · men | 6,843 | 72.8 | 128 | 72 |
| Tournament · men | 6,333 | 70.5 | 119 | 72 |
| Tournament · women | 6,333 | 76.7 | 132 | 72 |
| Players · men | 5,709 | 67.2 | 112 | 72 |
| Players · women | 5,709 | 73.2 | 124 | 72 |
| Legacy · men | 5,294 | 65.3 | 108 | 72 |
| Legacy · women | 5,294 | 70.9 | 121 | 72 |
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