2000 Cypress Bend Pkwy,
Many, Louisiana LA 71449
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Ken Rams (Golf Operations Manager)The Course:
18 holes. Tree-lined parkland. Hilly - several slopes to climb, with some long green-to-tee distances.
Surroundings:
Woodland and lakeside.
Designer:
Dave Bennett
31.432673
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85 miles W of Alexandria
Cypress Bend, La.
Cypress Bend Resort is impressively located on the banks of Toledo Bend Lake, with the state of Texas just across on the other side. Although in geographical terms one of the "outliers" of the Audubon Golf Trail, Cypress Bend is certainly one of the Trail's most natural, scenic and wonderfully crafted layouts.
With the advantage of excellent onsite accommodation, this Resort & Conference Centre offers a fabulously undulating (at times hilly) golf course, which weaves its way through lines of towering pines and alongside the huge lake. In this stunningly natural setting, you will enjoy many dramatically elevated tee-boxes (starting at the first hole), which alternate with elevated greens, as at the closing par-4 18th.
Whereas the front-nine takes you through the pine forest and alongside two of the lake's inlets, the back-nine gets you right beside the lake itself and looking across into Texas. With no housing anywhere to be seen and an occasional rustic edge to some of the presentation, this is a wonderfully natural and at times dramatic course that's well worth making a detour to play.
Pick of the holes: the closing stretch from the downhill, doglegging long par-4 14th is as scenic as you could wish for. The downhill par-4 16th is a shorter version of the 14th, also doglegging from left to right into a lakeside green. The signature par-3 17th also occupies a glorious lakeside setting and again requires a shot across a corner of the lake to reach the safety of the green.
Stay&Play at Cypress Bend: onsite accommodation available, see Where2Stay section below.
Visitors welcome on weekdays and weekends.
Must book in advance.
Contact club for full details, discounts, Stay&Play packages, etc. [Last updated: 2024].
Non-metal spike facility. Walking permitted after 3pm.
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Cypress Bend Resort is a member of Louisiana's Audubon Golf Trail. The Trail was established in 2001, and includes 18 of the best public-access courses in the state. [See our entry for Audubon Park (Did You Know section) for a list of the Audubon Golf Trail courses].
The Cypress Bend golf course is located on the Louisiana bank of Toledo Bend Lake, a man-made reservoir that stretches for 70 miles, and is typically three to four 4 miles wide.
The lake, the fifth largest man-made lake in the USA, was created in the mid-1960s by constructing a dam across the Sabine River. The upper reaches of the 555-mile long Sabine River flow through the prairie country of northeast Texas, while its lower reaches (including Toledo Bend Lake) form the border between Texas and Louisiana.
2000 Cypress Bend Parkway, Many, Louisiana 71449.
+1 (318) 590 1500
Visit websiteTucked away on the Texas-Louisiana border, Cypress Bend Resor offers top-quality accommodations as well as an 18-hole championship golf course, award-winning fishing, nature trails, spa and special event venues. Here you can escape the everyday on the shores of Toledo Bend Lake.
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