Chasing Aces Golf will not be your typical golf course

If all goes as planned, it will be a year before you hit the first ball at Chasing Aces Golf. But the smallest of details are already being ironed out.

“From getting the administration in line, to getting the positions in line, to making sure we have all of our menus and food and tables and decorations and processes and employees,” Randy Rogers said, “we’re building a corporation from the ground up. There’s a lot of work to it.”

Rogers is the vice president and co-founder of Chasing Aces Golf, an entertainment-themed golf course being built in Bossier City near Margaritaville Hotel & Casino. Construction on the clubhouse and course began in early February.

“We’re working on every bit of it,” Rogers said. “We have meetings once a week. We have tasks and timelines for when we have to be able to get these tasks completed. It’s never too early to start on anything because it doesn’t take too long for a year to creep up on you and it’s gone.”

Rogers noted that “everything looks to be pretty much on schedule” for the $25-million facility, which is expected to open in June 2025. The clubhouse slab was recently poured, and the steel and beams are set to go up soon. Meanwhile, the building of a nine-hole, par-three course is underway, led by designer Lee Marshall, co-president of Carlton Marshall Golf Design. Rogers calls Marshall “a world-renowned golf designer” and “one of the best of the best.”

“He is taking the land and moving dirt,” Rogers said. “It’s a flat piece of land, and we’re creating all the hills to make (the course) extremely challenging. He is able to get out there and use this land as a blanket and create exactly what he has envisioned to make this one of the best-looking courses he’s ever done.”

Rogers said the course will have hills, undulations, palm trees and “special effects.”

“Whenever people see it, they’re not going to think they’re in Bossier City,” Rogers said.

Chasing Aces will not be your typical golf course. The only grass will be on the fairways. Tee boxes and greens will be astroturf. The same goes for the 18-hole putting green and driving range. This method is intended to save money on maintenance and upkeep.

“The cost of a traditional golf course is very, very, very expensive,” Rogers said. “With the astroturf, with minimal care, you can get 15 years out of it. We’re not in the grass business.

We’re in the entertainment business.”

Indeed, Chasing Aces promises to be a long par five from the stoic atmosphere you’re surrounded by on some courses.

“This is entertainment,” Rogers said.

“We’re designing a smart course on the par three, where we will have a camera system that is being developed by us. It will be able to capture the ball from when it is hit until it lands on the green. If someone is able to get a hole-in-one, we will have it on video. There will be a lot of lights and a lot of different things that are going to make it a lot of fun. There’s going to be music out on the golf course. It will be very entertaining. The software and technology we are bringing will be second to none.”

While golf can be known as a “cliquish” sport, Rogers promises Chasing Aces will be for everyone.

“Close to evening time, it’s going to turn into a great fun time for family and friends and kids, adults, all ages, to be able to come out and participate, either on the par three or the putting course. Everybody will be able to come out and have a great time as a family, as a single person or as a couple.”

You may visit Chasing Aces Golf’s Facebook page to stay posted on construction.