Rounds at StoneBridge, Cypress Bend on Toledo Bend, Northwood Hills and Huntington Park, with two rooms at a Bossier City casino hotel, are the plan. Airfare into Shreveport, about 16% in hotel taxes, golf bag fees and a rental car for the long drives to the outlying courses push the total up.
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Compare hotels near the riverfront casinos →Pick each course you'll play (one round per golfer) and we'll price it for your group. Prices are per golfer for 18 holes, with the season and time of day you choose. Your picks set “Green fees per golfer (whole trip)” in your budget.
410 courses around Shreveport-Bossier that take public tee times, by city, with peak green fees. Private member clubs are left out.
A state-park course next to Poverty Point Reservoir, long ranked the top public course in Louisiana, with lakefront cabins and a lodge for stay-and-play; it's about 40 minutes east of Monroe and about two hours from Shreveport.
lastateparks.com archive.richlandtoday.comA Toledo Bend lakeside resort course with water and pines throughout and a hotel on site, about 80 minutes south of Shreveport.
golfpass.com golfpass.comThe area's best-known public-access course, a Fred Couples design in a Bossier City neighborhood with a full practice range; local reports say greens can be inconsistent, so ask about conditions.
golfnow.com golfpass.comMonroe's best-reviewed course that a visitor can book, with the front and back nines playing like two different courses, both kept in good shape, and friendly staff.
golfpass.com golfnow.comMonroe's city course is over 7,000 yards and an easy walk, and one of the cheapest 18-hole rounds in the state.
monroela.us golfpass.comA rolling north-Shreveport course with a fun back nine and good pace of play, popular with local golfers.
golfpass.com explorelouisiana.comShreveport's long city course, nearly 7,000 yards with water in play, recently reported in its best shape in years.
golfpass.com cdn-golflink.comShreveport's 100-year-old city course where Hal Sutton and David Toms learned the game; it's short with small, firm, elevated greens that were rebuilt in 2024.
lgagolf.org explorelouisiana.comA hilly parish course off I-20 with real elevation changes and a good price, about 50 minutes east of Shreveport and 25 minutes west of Ruston.
golflink.com explorelouisiana.comA relaxed, affordable course west of Shreveport with a log-cabin clubhouse known for its burger and little out-of-bounds; conditions vary.
explorelouisiana.com golfnow.comThe sample is 4 travelers for 4 nights. Your plan ($5,744) covers the main costs most people budget for, the ones you enter on the left. Costs people forget ($2,694, about 47% more for this trip) are the fees, taxes, tips and extras listed in the calculator. Prices were last checked on October 17, 2026.
Share of the $8,438 real cost. Nights and travelers multiply most of these costs, so changing either one moves the total the most.
12 of this trip's numbers link to a published price or rate. The rest are our estimates, and each one says what it is based on. You can also read how we calculate every trip.
| Cost | Default | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Green fees per golfer (whole trip) | $260 per traveler | Four peak-spring weekend rounds with cart: StoneBridge $75 (golfers report $75 on weekends), Cypress Bend $70 (estimate; GolfNow deals about $57-$60 in Nov 2026, reviewers call weekends pricier), Northwood Hills $62 (GolfLink standard rate $61.75 with cart, Sunday Nov 8, 2026) and Huntington Park $50 (estimate: GolfLink estimates $60 with cart; cart is $16). Total $257, rounded to $260. Judgment call. Source |
| Hotel, two rooms per night (whole group) | $280 a night | Bossier City casino hotels (Horseshoe, Margaritaville) start around $82-$93 a night incl. tax on midweek dates in Nov-Dec 2026; spring weekend rooms run higher. We use $140 a room, two rooms = $280. GSA standard lodging rate is $113. Judgment call. Source |
| Airfare per person | $556 per traveler | US DOT (BTS) average domestic itinerary fare for Shreveport (SHV), Q2 2026: $556.43. Source |
| Food per person, per day | $68 per traveler, per day | Caddo and Bossier parishes are not a GSA non-standard area for FY2027 (only New Orleans and Alexandria/Leesville/Natchitoches are, https://fedpayscale.org/per-diem/2027/louisiana/), so the standard CONUS M&IE rate of $68 a day applies. Source |
| Cost | Default | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Checked bag fees | $90 per traveler | Major US airlines charge about $35 to $50 for a first checked bag each way, so about $90 round trip. Source |
| Golf bag fees | $110 per traveler | American, Delta, United and Southwest treat a golf bag as a standard checked bag; a second bag is $55 each way. Source |
| Shipping your clubs Off by default | $108 per traveler | Ground shipping for a golf bag starts around $54 each way. Source |
| Lodging taxes | 16% of the hotel | State sales tax on hotel rooms outside Orleans/Jefferson is 5% from Jan 1, 2025; Bossier City's local sales tax is 5% (10% combined, https://www.avalara.com/us/en/taxrates/state-rates/louisiana/cities/bossier-city.html); Airbnb collects a 6% hotel occupancy tax in both Caddo and Bossier parishes (https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2307), and the Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau occupancy tax is capped at 6% (RS 33:4574.1.1). Total about 16%. Shreveport-side hotels may differ slightly. Judgment call. Source |
| Casino resort fees Off by default | $42 a night | Horseshoe Bossier City charges a resort fee of $20.87 a room per night; Margaritaville's listing shows none. Off by default. Two rooms = about $42. Source |
| Rental car | $90 a day | KAYAK at SHV (Nov 2026): SUVs about $81-$87 a day, vans about $101, overall average about $80. $90 a day for a large SUV or minivan. Judgment call. Source |
| Gas for the long drives | $40 for the trip | Our estimate: Bossier City to Cypress Bend (Many) is about 80 miles each way and to Trails End (Arcadia) about 50 miles each way; about 260 miles in an SUV at roughly 22 mpg and $3 a gallon is about $35-$40. Judgment call. Our estimate |
| Drinks on the course | $80 per traveler | Our estimate of about $20 a round for beverage-cart drinks and snacks. Judgment call. Our estimate |
| Golf balls | $55 per traveler | A dozen Titleist Pro V1 balls lists at $55. Source |
| Tips for bag drop and cart staff | $20 per traveler | A few dollars at bag drop and the turn; we use $5 a round. Judgment call. Source |
| Side bets and prizes | $50 per traveler | Our estimate for skins, team bets and a small trophy. Our estimate |
| Lessons and extras you picked Off by default | $0 for the trip | Set by the extras you pick in the tee-time planner. Our estimate |
| Travel insurance | 6% of your plan | Squaremouth says a comprehensive plan averages about 6% of the trip cost, usually 4% to 10%. Source |
| Pre-trip shopping | $60 for the trip | Our estimate for travel-size toiletries, sunscreen and small things bought before a trip. Our estimate |
| Pet boarding or sitter | $50 a day, if you check Pets | Dogster puts regular kennel boarding at about $35 to $85 a night. Overnight sitters at home cost more. Source |
For 4 golfers spending 4 nights in peak spring season, with four rounds each, a hotel, two rooms, flights and food, plan on about $5,740. Once you add golf bag fees, lodging taxes, rental car, gas for the long drives, drinks on the course, balls, tips and side bets, it's closer to $8,440, or about $2,110 each. Use the tee-time planner above to price the courses you want.
Most courses here keep similar rates all year, so the savings come from weekday, afternoon and online deal times. In November, Northwood Hills deals ran about $35 to $47 against about $62 at the standard rate with a cart. Summer is hot, with highs in the 90s, and deals are easier to find. Source
Most stay at the riverfront casino hotels in Bossier City, such as Horseshoe and Margaritaville, which have free parking. Midweek rooms started around $82 to $93 a night. Horseshoe adds a resort fee of about $21 a room each night. Source
Shreveport Regional (SHV), about 15 minutes from the Bossier City casinos and StoneBridge. The US DOT average fare into Shreveport was about $556 in spring. Dallas-Fort Worth is about three hours' drive west and often cheaper to fly into. Source
For many golfers, yes. It sits on Toledo Bend Reservoir about 80 minutes south, with water and pines on most holes, and it is ranked among Louisiana's best public courses by GolfPass golfers. It plays long and tight, with a slope of 141 from the back tees. Source