Golf in Salem

Salem is Oregon's state capital and the third-largest city in the state, anchoring the mid-Willamette Valley in Marion County where the river's agricultural heartland is most productive. The State Capitol, Willamette University, and a substantial government employment base give the city a professional character, while the surrounding Willamette Valley farmland — hop yards, berry operations, nurseries, and the beginning of Oregon wine country to the west — provides the agricultural context. Four courses serve Salem and its immediate surroundings, a concentration that reflects genuine recreational golf depth in a mid-sized capital city. The Polk County side, edging toward the Eola-Amity Hills wine country, adds a particularly scenic dimension to the Salem golf landscape.