Golf in Mount Ayr

Mount Ayr is the Ringgold County seat in far south Iowa, one of the state's smallest and most rural county seats. Ringgold County's peaceful agricultural landscape and the small-town character of the county government create an intimate community where recreational golf serves an important social function. Golf serves the Mount Ayr area's community in the south Iowa prairie. 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.