Golf in Ames

Ames is a Boone and Story County city home of Iowa State University, one of the nation's premier land-grant research universities. The ISU Cyclones athletics programs, the university's agricultural and engineering research, and the academic culture create a vibrant college city in the Iowa prairie. Multiple golf courses serve the Ames community (from the historic Veenker Memorial to municipal facilities) in the Story County agricultural and academic landscape. 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.