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River Bend Municipal Golf Course is a 9-hole public course in Story City, Iowa.

It plays 2,934 yards from the Men tees, slope 117 (checked 2026-08-15).

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9
holes
36
par
2,934
yards (tips)
117
slope (men)
The shape of the round · Men teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — MEN TEES465421138343115310324310508152433445364748495PAROUT 1,367 YDSIN 1,567 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

access
public
address
Broad Street, Story City, IA, 50248
phone
515-733-2611
elevation
973 ft derived
opened
1971

42.19134, -93.58262 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 9 holes. The green of hole 1 is predicted by a model from USDA NAIP aerial imagery. 5 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

52 features across 8 layers for River Bend Municipal Golf Course, 51 traced and 1 predicted by a model, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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52 features across 8 layers for River Bend Municipal Golf Course, 51 traced and 1 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

9
Holes
9
Fairways
2
Bunkers
4
Water
9
Greens
12
Tee pads
2,934yds
Men tees
508yds
Longest hole
115yds
Shortest hole

51 imported from OpenStreetMap and 1 predicted by a model from aerial imagery, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-09-02 – 2023-10-10

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 2 tee sets par, yardage, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 2 rows.

MenM362934117
LadiesM372725116

Every figure as published; a blank cell is one nobody publishes.

Scorecard

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-15

Hole 123456789 Total
Par 543434445 36
Men 465421138343115310324310508 2,934
Handicap 1317517931511

No per-hole yardages are published for Ladies, so it is not on the card above.

Plan it in the Studio

Plan River Bend Municipal 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. 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

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
Longest2,934 yds238th of 302=10,708th of 12,02540th of 46 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines-Ames, IA combined area · 3,459th of 4,105 public courses · 6,083rd of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,211th of 1,791 9-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 117=106th of 201=7,075th of 8,71022nd of 33 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines-Ames, IA combined area · =2,058th of 2,882 public courses · =3,732nd of 4,936 courses you can book · =449th of 972 9-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread209 yds between tees268th of 286=11,200th of 11,52343rd of 46 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines-Ames, IA combined area · 3,700th of 3,841 public courses · =6,438th of 6,653 courses you can book · =1,495th of 1,640 9-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1971=147th of 229=4,617th of 9,368=21st of 40 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines-Ames, IA combined area · =1,378th of 3,277 public courses · =2,451st of 5,526 courses you can book · =908th of 1,347 9-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level973 ft derived 171st of 319=3,597th of 12,4376th of 48 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines-Ames, IA combined area · =1,345th of 4,289 public courses · =2,337th of 7,274 courses you can book · =734th 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 progress3 of 6 built

3 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 1 set 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, 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, 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 the architect, a website and 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 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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