Golf in Anderson

Anderson anchors Madison County on the White River roughly 35 miles northeast of Indianapolis, a mid-size city that once ranked among Indiana's busiest manufacturing centers. The auto industry shaped Anderson's 20th-century growth — Guide Lamp, Delco Remy, and other General Motors suppliers built the city's industrial base and drew a workforce that supported the civic institutions, including the country clubs and recreational golf courses, that define the community today. Anderson University adds an academic anchor to a city that has worked through economic reinvention since the manufacturing contraction of the 1980s and 1990s. Three golf facilities serve the Anderson area, a solid footprint for a city its size. The White River corridor and the flat east-central Indiana terrain surrounding Anderson shape the character of golf here — open, unpretentious, and accessible to the working community the city has always been.