Golf in Armstrong

Armstrong is an Emmet County community near the Iowa Great Lakes resort region of northwest Iowa. The proximity to Spirit Lake and Okoboji and the surrounding agricultural landscape create the northwest Iowa community setting. Golf serves the Armstrong area's farming and recreational community in the north Iowa landscape near the glacial lakes that draw summer visitors from across the Midwest. 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.