Koasati Pines at Coushatta

Overview: Koasati Pines at Coushatta is a long resort course in Kinder, Louisiana, where pine woodland, wetlands and extensive water shape the experience. Kevin Tucker’s design uses the natural setting to create a spacious but demanding layout, with broad corridors balanced by hazards and changing angles into the greens. The course is listed at 7,617 yards from the back markers, making it one of the state’s longest layouts, yet the landscape gives the round a strong sense of place rather than making it a simple test of distance. Lakes and ponds appear throughout the routing, while the forest and wetland edges frame the holes.

History: Koasati Pines was developed as part of the Coushatta Casino Resort project and its golf course dates to 2002. The course was designed by Nashville architect Kevin Tucker, whose plan used the area’s wetlands, forest and almost 65 acres of lakes and ponds as central design features. The wider resort grew from the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana’s economic development programme, with golf added as one of the property’s outdoor attractions a few years after the resort began. A 2020 reopening announcement described Koasati Pines as a leading public course in the state and confirmed the continuing role of Tucker’s original design.

Did You Know? Koasati Pines is named for the Coushatta people, whose tribal history includes a strong tradition of preserving language, crafts and cultural practices. The course is therefore part of a resort project that sits within a much broader Louisiana story of Coushatta identity and community.