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.