Golf in Eldora

Eldora is the Hardin County seat in north-central Iowa, home of the Iowa State Training School and the Pine Lake recreational area. The Hardin County agricultural landscape and the county seat community create the north Iowa setting. Golf at Pine Lake serves the Eldora area's community in the central Iowa landscape. The community's recreational golf culture reflects the Iowa values that have shaped the state's communities: civic participation, accessible outdoor recreation, and the seasonal pleasures of Iowa's four-season climate, where the warm summers and the brilliant autumn days create a golf season of genuine quality. Golf in this Iowa community provides the recreational and social infrastructure that sustains community life in the agricultural heartland, where the course serves farmers, small business owners, teachers, and county professionals in a setting shaped by the productive Iowa landscape.