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February 2025 – The photo above is a professional shot of Stonebridge Golf Club of New Orleans. This image has been HEAVILY photoshopped. It reflects reality as much as if I posted the picture of a unicorn above and said it was Stonebridge. To be clear, Stonebridge is a complete shithole. A course that was surrounded by homes, was in piss poor shape, and like the city which hosted Super Bowl LIX, was as visually appealing as a fucking SEPTA bus with graffiti and a piss smell about it. There’s no way I would review this in the blog portion of my site (which is dedicated to the better courses I’ve played) if it weren’t for Super Bowl LIX. So let’s get right into why I was here and wasted 2 hours of my life on 9 holes at Stonebridge – to talk about Super Bowl LIX.

Heading into the 2022 golf season, I was super excited about the Eagles prospects and throughout posts that year said that I am hoping my first post of 2023 would be from Phoenix at the Super Bowl. So the Eagles made it. We went and I fulfilled that promise to the “hundred” of people who have actually made it to this site and my first post of 2023 was from Phoenix (at a shitty course called Foothills). If you click through there you will see I didn’t even actually play Foothills when we went out there but I had to go back the next week and played it then. Stonebridge was worse than Foothills but the Super Bowl was much better. Regardless, I also predicted the Eagles would win the Super Bowl in 2025 (in my Bedford Springs Old Course post) and while I didn’t promise I’d come out here, that’s what I did and that’s why I am writing up this Super Bowl post with a side of golf to stay on the Golf Scrapbook brand.

Let’s actually correct that above paragraph. I didn’t just predict at the beginning of this season that the Eagles would win the Super Bowl, I predicted it at the beginning of the 2023 season (in my Somerset Hills review – a world better of a course than Foothills and Stonebridge). I figured they had a tough schedule slated for 2023 and had lost some free agents but I did have faith that they would rebound the following year and win it all. From the Bedford post then at the beginning of the 2024 season:

As I said last year, I thought the Eagles would take a step back in 2023 and they did. I also said I think they will get back in cap shape and win it all in 2024 and I’m sticking to that. LIX will be in New Orleans and I doubt I can luck into tickets so will have to watch from here. I think the Ravens will finally get over the hump and beat KC in the playoffs/championship game and make it to the Supe. The Stillers will finally finish below .500 and Tomlin will be volunforced to retire. I think the Colts will be the out-of-nowhere team in the AFC and win the division. Bills will be the tallest midget in a lousy AFC East – I think the Dolphins and Jets both barely get to around .500 and the Pats will have the number one pick in the draft. Chiefs win the West. The Bungles, Texans and Chargers will round out the wildcards.

The NFC is wide open this year for the Eagles. I think Dallas will miss the playoffs and boy has Jerry mismanaged the Dak, Micah and CeeDee contracts. I think Dak is gone after this season. The Commanders will be better but not there yet and the Giants will S-U-C-K. Chicago is the out-of-nowhere team in the NFC making the playoffs with the Lions and Packers from the North. Atlanta wins a lousy South. Everyone starts figuring out Purdy and the Niners win the West but barely over the Seahawks. Eagles will beat the Packers in the NFC championship game. Can’t wait to see how wrong I am.

Well I did “luck” into tickets – if you call spending around $6,000 for tix lucking into them (but we had good seats so was much better than when the tix first came out). And we watched the Eagles destroy the Chiefs. From the prediction above, I was pretty damn close. I thought the Stillers would finish below .500 but they made the playoffs though they were in no way competitive down the stretch. I’m surprised Tomlin didn’t lose his job. The Colts would’ve surprised if their QB didn’t quit on them one game and their RB didn’t purposefully drop the ball heading into the end zone on another game. I was pretty spot on for the rest of the AFC. In the NFC, Washington was even better than I thought they’d be. Bears didn’t hit it as much as I thought they would and the Vikings were the out of nowhere team. Atlanta (predicted) versus Tampa (reality) but who cares, the NFC South sucked as I said it would and the Niners were figured out but did worse than even I thought. Most importantly, the Eagles won!

The Supe was great. We had a group of 11 and rented an Air BnB in the hood but only about a mile from The Superdome. The crowd was about 75% Eagles fans and we had the pleasure of booing Taylor and cheering Trump.

We never really broke a sweat in this one. We didn’t have time to get concerned after the phantom offensive PI call on the Eagles’ first drive and the Hurts interception on the third (after we were up 7-0) as the D forced three-and-outs (okay four-and-out on the first Chief’s drive). The Coop pick six and Baun pick at the end of the first half that they would turn into a Brown touch ignited the early celebration.

Fly Eagles Fly!

So Super Bowl LX is in Santa Clara next year and I just might start buying up some hotels and tee times for the Birds repeat!

To New Orleans. Is it a golf trip destination? Well, first we all tried to think of one word to describe New Orleans. Dirty? Old? Shitty? Annoying accent. Annoying residents. Shitsational Bourbon Street. We finally came up with the word, DANK! It is just a dank city.

There are some great restaurants there – we ate at Emerils in Caesars one night when we were down for the Supe. Arnaud’s in the Quarter is touristy but good. Commander’s Palace in the Garden District is THE place to go. We also went to Brennan’s for brunch many moons ago (in fact we asked them to replace the fine coffee they usually serve with Folger’s Crystals which is kind of funny if you are a Boomer or Gen X’er). And that’s just the tip of the fine culinary scene.

Bourbon Street is fun for about a hot minute then you’ll get sick of it. And the golf…Played English Turn and that is the best but even then it’s only better than average to good, not great. Played the TPC but that was meh”+” at best. Oak Harbor was across Lake Pontchartrain and was meh”-“. And of course Stonebridge was horrid. There are no must play privates down there. So I would say New Orleans is most definitely not a great spot to plan a trip around unless your team makes the Supe, you luck out with weather (we did) and maybe play English Turn, TPC and take a trip to Biloxi and play Fallen Oak. Keep in mind though it did snow a week-and-a-half before we got down there and I have been down in February before with freezing cold weather, so there is a chance you won’t even have the weather to play.

Stonebridge

Stonebridge has 27 holes. We played one to nine and quit. Clubhouse was okay and had bloodies which were also ok. We rented shitty clubs and was actually the best I played in 2025. Hmmm.