The Oaks Golf Club near Biloxi, Mississippi
There are those who make the case that many Biloxi-area golf courses are in better shape than they were before Hurricane Katrina hit. The Oaks Golf Club is Exhibit A.
It probably has more to do with the new management and superintendent than with the storm, but the course is immeasurably better than it was two years ago. It had terrible greens then, but also great potential, which it is realizing now.
Listed on Golf Digest's 2006-07 Best Places to Play roster, The Oaks features a particularly nice collection of par 3s. Most play over water with the green sitting sideways to the tee box and the pin usually placed behind some yawning bunkers, as in Nos. 5, 7, 12 and 16. You have to fly it in with a soft touch.
The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
A new superintendent at The Oaks Golf Club near Biloxi has the course in great shape.
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The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
The Oaks Golf Club lost about 3,000 trees from Hurricane Katrina.
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The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
The Oaks plays through thick timberland and Mississippi wetlands.
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The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
The greens at The Oaks have been vastly improved.
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The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
The Oaks features several marsh carries.
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The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
Turf conditions at The Oaks are the best they've in the last six years, coure officials say.
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The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
The Oaks Golf Club is under new management.
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The Oaks Golf Club, near Biloxi, Mississippi
The Oaks Golf Club needed 10 months to regroup after Hurricane Katrina.
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