Golf in Monroe

Monroe is a small Benton County community in the lower Willamette Valley, a farming community along the Long Tom River where the valley floor produces grass seed, mint, and other specialty crops on the rich volcanic soils deposited by Pleistocene floods. Benton County's agricultural and university character — Oregon State University anchors Corvallis just to the north — shapes the surrounding culture. Monroe is genuinely rural by valley standards, with the kind of tight-knit community identity that comes from being a small town within the orbit of a larger regional center. Golf in this part of the valley sits within the Corvallis recreational market.