Golf in Manson

Manson is a Calhoun County community notable for the Manson Impact Crater, one of North America's largest buried meteor impact craters, discovered beneath the Iowa landscape. The geological distinction and the Calhoun County agricultural landscape create the northwest Iowa community setting. Golf serves the Manson area's community in the 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.