Elmwood Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Marshalltown, Iowa.

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holes

par

6,148

yards (tips)

125

slope (black)

The shape of the round · Black 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

designer: Tom Bendelow reported
access: private
address: South 12th Street, Marshalltown, IA, 50158
elevation: 1,013 ft derived
opened: 1921

42.02447, -92.93315 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. Hole 12: line and green predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. Other holes: traced by OpenStreetMap contributors. 51 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

228 features across 8 layers for Elmwood Country Club, 226 traced and 2 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

Hole 12 predicted from USDA NAIP imagery · Contains information from SatlasPretrain, which is made available under the ODC Attribution License

Holes

Fairways

Bunkers

Water

Greens

Tee pads

6,148yds

Black tees

553yds

Longest hole

120yds

Shortest hole

226 imported from OpenStreetMap and the lines and greens of hole 12 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, hole lines and edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-08-30

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 10 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table


Black	F	70	6148	76.3	134	3138	3010
Black	M	70	6148	70.9	125	3138	3010
Black/White	M	70	5718	68.7	122
Black/White	F	70	5718	74.0	129
White	F	70	5613	73.4	127	2807	2806
White	M	70	5613	68.2	121	2807	2806
White/Green	M	70	5200	66.3	116
White/Green	F	70	5200	70.6	125
Green	F	69	4796	68.3	119
Green	M	69	4796	64.4	108

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

Scorecard

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	4	3	4	4	3	5	4	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	3	4	4	70
Black	404	378	157	353	359	216	553	389	329	435	323	120	470	425	384	180	320	353	6,148
White	367	360	140	276	348	173	485	374	284	385	308	120	462	425	334	165	314	293	5,613
Handicap	7	5	17	11	9	15	1	3	13	8	10	18	2	4	6	16	12	14

No per-hole yardages are published for Black/White, White/Green and Green, so they are not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan Elmwood 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 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

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

Book nearby

Elmwood Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: American Legion Golf Course (0.7 mi, public) · Wandering Creek Golf Course (1.1 mi, public) · Collison Par 3 Golf Course (5.5 mi, public) · Legends Golf Club (15 mi, public)

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	6,148 yds	99th of 302	=7,991st of 12,025	=2,403rd of 2,954 private courses · =7,918th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest test	slope 125	=53rd of 201	=5,317th of 8,710	=1,930th of 2,300 private courses · =5,092nd of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tips	rating 70.9	63rd of 111	=5,349th of 7,615	=1,858th of 2,143 private courses · =5,271st of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread	1,352 yds between tees	62nd of 286	=6,415th of 11,523	=1,824th of 2,885 private courses · =6,310th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldest	opened 1921	=27th of 229	=816th of 9,368	=465th of 2,418 private courses · =594th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level	1,013 ft derived	=155th of 319	=3,351st of 12,437	=622nd of 3,026 private courses · =2,297th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 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, built.Rated from 10 sets of tees.
Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery. Hole 12 is predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
Per-hole distances, built.Every hole has a line of play, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along it. Hole 12 is predicted from aerial imagery; OpenStreetMap traced the rest.
Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
Course details, partly built.4 of 7 background details — we don't hold a website, a phone number and the grass on the greens.

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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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Nearby courses

American Legion Golf Course

0.7 mi · Marshalltown · public · 18 holes

Wandering Creek Golf Course

1.1 mi · Marshalltown · public · 9 holes

Collison Par 3 Golf Course

5.5 mi · public · 18 holes

Lincoln Valley Golf Course / City of State Center

9.7 mi · state center · 18 holes

Legends Golf Club

15 mi · Prior Lake · public · 18 holes

South Hardin Recreation Area

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The Harvester Golf Club

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Tama Toledo Country Club

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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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