Golf in Albia

Albia is the Monroe County seat in the coal mining heritage region of south-central Iowa. The Victorian courthouse square — one of Iowa's most distinctive county seat ensembles — and the Monroe County agricultural landscape with its coal mining history create a distinctive community. Golf serves the Albia area's professional, working, and farming community in the south-central Iowa landscape. The surrounding landscape of corn and soybean fields, the grain elevators that mark the horizon, and the seasonal rhythms of planting and harvest create the Iowa agricultural context that gives the local golf community its distinctive Midwest character. Iowa's position at the heart of the American agricultural economy — one of the world's most productive farming regions — creates communities shaped by land values, commodity markets, and the natural seasons, and local golf serves as a year-round social institution in this distinctively Midwestern setting.