Golf in Colfax

Colfax is a Jasper County community east of Des Moines, historically known as a mineral springs resort where Iowans came for health cures in the nineteenth century. The Jasper County agricultural landscape and the proximity to the Des Moines metropolitan area create the central Iowa setting. Golf serves the Colfax area's community in the Iowa prairie. 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.