The Bridges Golf Club - Bay St. Louis, Mississippi

Located in a low-lying marsh area, The Bridges Golf Club was pretty much directly in Hurricane Katrina's furious path. After the storm the water was 20 feet deep in places. Today the rebuilt Bay St. Louis golf course is as good a play as ever.

This is one of the prettiest courses you'll find, with marsh views virtually everywhere and little visual evidence that it shares grounds with a large casino complex. There are no houses or condos to mar the scene. Just as before the storm, the fairways roll and tumble, the holes are interestingly diverse and the greens are large and contoured. With conditioning that would do any course proud, the Bridges is one of Arnold Palmer's better works and a coastal Mississippi must-play.