NEW ORLEANS —An amendment introduced on Tuesday at the State Capitol would effectively bar the relocation of the Zurich Classic PGA tournament to City Park as a condition for state funding of a new City Park golf course. It is not known who introduced the amendment to HB2, which came in the waning days of the 2014 legislative session, though the move clearly favors interests in Jefferson Parish, where the tournament is currently staged.

Brechtel Park Golf Course, once a popular destination for recreational golfers looking to play an inexpensive round, now is visited only by the city work crews who come by occasionally to cut the grass. The 115-acre course and driving range, which sits off Behr-man Highway in Algiers, has been in limbo since it closed in 2011. Hurricane Katrina had destroyed its irrigation system and the course became essentially unusable, so many golfers stopped coming.

Today, portions of the fence are overgrown with vines or fallen down, and golf clubs, bags and shoes litter the floor of the empty clubhouse.

After two efforts by the city to find someone prepared to redevelop Brechtel as an 18-hole course found no takers, it appears likely that the course will be reborn as something different. What that will be is uncertain.