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Golf courses in Iowa

Iowa has 395 golf courses: 2.4% of the US total of 16,298. That ranks #14 by count and #2 per person (12.19 per 100,000 residents) of 51.

national rank (per capita)

395

golf courses

12.19

per 100k residents

The data

Source: OpenStreetMap, October 2026. Every feature tagged as a golf course, one point each. The National Golf Foundation counts about 16,000 courses. OpenStreetMap is community-made, so a few may be missing or out of date.

Licence: ODbL: © OpenStreetMap contributors. Reuse must credit OpenStreetMap and keep the data open.

Iowa: 395 rows (CSV)All of the US (CSV)

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Named golf courses in Iowa include

Sheldon Golf and Country Club · Rock Valley Golf Club · Dodge Riverside Golf Club · Avoca Golf Club · The Meadows Country Club · Landsmeer Golf Club · Sioux Valley Golf Course · Storm Lake Golf Course · Marcus Community Golf Club · Newell Golf Course · Spencer Golf and Country Club · Okoboji View Golf Course

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