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Echo Valley Country Club is a 9-hole private golf course in Norwalk, Iowa.

Designed by Edward L. Packard. It plays 3,447 yards from the Black tees.

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9
holes
35
par
3,447
yards (tips)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES386489375377177600238448357142434445365738494PAROUT 1,627 YDSIN 1,820 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 9 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
Edward L. Packard reported
access
private
address
3150 Echo Valley Drive, Norwalk, IA, 50211
phone
515-285-0101
elevation
888 ft derived
opened
1969

41.50389, -93.66398 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map draws 27 hole lines for a 9-hole course. Holes 1–9 are each drawn in more than one place, so a line here may not be the hole it is numbered. 51 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

298 features across 8 layers for Echo Valley Country Club, 290 traced and 8 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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298 features across 8 layers for Echo Valley Country Club, 290 traced and 8 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

27
Holes
36
Fairways
75
Bunkers
8
Water · predicted
9
Greens
91
Tee pads
3,447yds
Black tees
600yds
Longest hole
177yds
Shortest hole

290 imported from OpenStreetMap and 8 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-09-02

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 4 tee sets par, yardage — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 4 rows.

BlackM36contested353447
WhiteM36contested353145
BlueM36contested352841
GoldF36contested352377

Every figure as published except Card par (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes.

The Black, White, Blue and Gold 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.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 444435344 35
Black 386489375377177600238448357 3,447
White 334448345357148552190434337 3,145
Blue 302398312342140494143383327 2,841
Gold 262393263286133397112287244 2,377
Handicap 16681418410212

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Echo Valley Country Club 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. Where a green was surveyed, it reads the slope too.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

Plan this course in the Studio

Pictures: Studio output for a sample golfer, drawn 2026-10-15. The Studio needs a free account. AI can make mistakes.

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Book nearby

Echo Valley Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: The Legacy Golf Club (1.6 mi, public) · Warrior Run Golf Course (1.9 mi, public) · West Grand Golf (7.3 mi, semi-private) · Sleepy Hollow Sports Park (9.0 mi, public)

Measured against comparable courses

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

FigureThis courseIn IowaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest3,447 yds124th of 302=9,471st of 12,02523rd of 34 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · 2,594th of 2,954 private courses · =130th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,070 yds between tees96th of 286=8,001st of 11,52321st of 34 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =2,253rd of 2,885 private courses · 90th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1969=131st of 229=4,312th of 9,36814th of 29 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =1,376th of 2,418 private courses · =854th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level888 ft derived =220th of 319=4,225th of 12,43726th of 35 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =813th of 3,026 private courses · 830th of 1,830 9-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress2 of 6 built

2 of 6 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, not built yet.We don't have a course rating or slope for this course yet.
  • Course map, built.All 9 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, not built yet.We can't tie the mapped playing line to the published hole distances, so we're not showing distances here.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.

Sources

Gathered from the course's own site 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.

Compare this course →

Or go straight to a comparison: vs The Legacy Golf Club · vs Warrior Run Golf Course · vs Blank Park Golf Course

Nearby courses

The Legacy Golf Club

1.6 mi · Norwalk · public · 18 holes

Warrior Run Golf Course

1.9 mi · Norwalk · public · 9 holes

Blank Park Golf Course

2.6 mi · Des Moines · 18 holes

Wakonda Club

3.5 mi · Des Moines · private · 18 holes

Waveland Golf Course

6.5 mi · Des Moines · 18 holes

West Grand Golf

7.3 mi · West Des Moines · semi-private · 9 holes

Sleepy Hollow Sports Park

9.0 mi · Des Moines · public · 9 holes

Bright Grandview Golf Course

9.7 mi · Des Moines · 18 holes

Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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