Golf in Clermont

Clermont is a Fayette County community on the Turkey River in northeast Iowa, a historic river community in the wooded ridge country. The Turkey River valley's scenic character and the Fayette County agricultural landscape create the northeast Iowa setting. Golf serves the Clermont area's community in the northeast 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.