Golf in Richmond

Richmond is the Ray County seat in northwestern Missouri, a community with Civil War significance as the location where Union General Thomas Ewing issued Order No. 11, the controversial forced evacuation of rural border county residents. Ray County's agricultural economy of grain and cattle farming in the gently varied northwest Missouri plains creates the community context for a county seat maintaining recreational golf infrastructure. The surrounding landscape reflects the fertile agricultural potential of the Missouri River's northern tributaries. The county seat's role as a commercial and governmental hub ensures that recreational infrastructure like golf courses receives the community investment appropriate to a center serving the surrounding rural population.