Golf in Harlan

Harlan is the Shelby County seat in west Iowa, the commercial and governmental center for the surrounding agricultural community. The Shelby County farming landscape and the county seat's service functions create the west Iowa setting. Golf serves the Harlan area's farming and professional community in the Iowa prairie 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.