Golf in La Harpe

La Harpe is a Hancock County agricultural community in the pastoral interior of western Illinois, east of the Mississippi bluff country and well north of Macomb. The Lamoine River drains the surrounding farmland, and Lamoine Valley Golf Club takes its name and setting from that watershed. La Harpe sits in a part of Illinois where the pace is distinctly rural and the nearest significant city — Macomb, Burlington Iowa, or Carthage — is twenty or more miles distant. The golf club fills an important recreational role in a community where options are limited and the agricultural calendar shapes the rhythm of daily life.