American Legion Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Marshalltown, Iowa.

It plays 6,257 yards from the Blue tees, rated 69.2/114 (checked 2026-08-15).

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holes

par

6,257

yards (tips)

114

slope (blue)

The shape of the round · Blue teespublished figures only

The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

access: public
address: West High Street, Marshalltown, IA, 50158
elevation: 914 ft derived
opened: 1956

42.03288, -92.92704 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 15 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

142 features across 8 layers for American Legion Golf Course, 136 traced and 6 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Some outlines predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers · predicted

Water

Greens

Tee pads

99.7ft

Elevation range

6,200yds

Blue tees

616yds

Longest hole

150yds

Shortest hole

136 imported from OpenStreetMap and 6 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-08-30

Height870.5 ft970.2 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 4 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Blue	M	70		6257contested	6200	69.2	114	3210	2990
White	M	70		5900		67.7	110	3072	2803
Red	F	71contested	70	5273		69.6	105	2810	2430
Red	M	71contested	70	5273		64.9	104	2810	2430

Every figure as published except Card par (derived) and Card yards (derived), which are summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Red tees publish a par the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

The Blue tees publish a yardage total the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Yards column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own yardage row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
Par	4	5	4	4	4	4	3	4	3	4	4	5	3	4	5	3	4	3	70
Blue	400	616	405	410	358	395	151	325	150	340	384	495	190	340	498	180	395	168	6,257
White	385	603	395	380	325	385	142	315	142	327	337	480	183	325	480	146	370	155	5,900
Red	374	508	387	354	312	341	129	297	108	310	325	370	159	248	440	135	300	143	5,273
Handicap	5	1	7	11	13	3	17	9	15	10	4	6	14	12	8	18	2	16

Plan it in the Studio

Plan American Legion Golf Course hole by hole, for your game.

Ask in plain words. The Studio draws each hole on the aerial photo, picks a club for each shot from your carries and the way you miss, and shows where a miss costs you strokes. The greens on 17 of its 18 holes were surveyed, so it reads their slope there too.

The approach, planned Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
The green, from LiDAR Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
Every shot, tee to green Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

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Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

Figure	This course	In Iowa	Nationwide	Among its peers
Longest	6,257 yds	90th of 302	=7,564th of 12,025	=2,116th of 4,105 public courses · =3,896th of 7,004 courses you can book · =7,496th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 114	=130th of 201	=7,510th of 8,710	=2,264th of 2,882 public courses · =4,062nd of 4,936 courses you can book · =6,805th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 69.2	87th of 111	=6,597th of 7,615	=1,894th of 2,412 public courses · =3,425th of 4,145 courses you can book · =6,446th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	984 yds between tees	101st of 286	=8,391st of 11,523	=2,516th of 3,841 public courses · =4,566th of 6,653 courses you can book · =8,088th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1956	=76th of 229	=2,585th of 9,368	=589th of 3,277 public courses · =1,153rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =1,854th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	914 ft derived	=202nd of 319	=4,018th of 12,437	=1,530th of 4,289 public courses · =2,611th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,784th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress6 of 7 built

6 of 7 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 4 sets of tees.
Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 4 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
Green contours, built.Half-foot contours on all 18 measured greens, from public LiDAR.
Green slope and pin positions, built.Fall lines and the pinnable area on 18 greens — the figures the Caddie plans against.
Course details, partly built.3 of 7 background details — we don't hold the architect, a website and a phone number, and 1 more.

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Sources

Gathered from the course's own published information and public records — every figure on this page is traceable to who published it and when. Spot an error or a gap? Tell us.

Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-15. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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