Golf in Des Moines

Des Moines is the Iowa capital and Polk County's metropolitan center, the most dynamic city in the state and consistently ranked among America's most livable cities. The insurance industry capital, the Iowa State Fair, and a nationally recognized restaurant and arts scene create a vibrant Midwest capital. Multiple golf courses serve the Des Moines community in the 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.