Golf in Elma

Elma is a Howard County community in extreme northeast Iowa near the Minnesota border. The Howard County agricultural landscape and the small community's farming heritage create the north Iowa border community setting. Golf serves the Elma area's agricultural community with recreational facilities in the Iowa prairie. 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.