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River Valley Golf Course is an 18-hole public course in Adel, Iowa.

Designed by Lowell Erdman. It plays 6,684 yards from the Gold tees, rated 72/124 (checked 2026-08-15).

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18
holes
72
par
6,684
yards (tips)
124
slope (gold)
The shape of the round · Gold teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — GOLD TEES390505180400540380360390165355500155410375425195540355142533445564748493104115123134144154163175184PAROUT 3,310 YDSIN 3,310 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
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
Lowell Erdman reported
access
public
address
22927 Valley View Trail, Adel, IA
phone
515-993-4029
elevation
926 ft derived
opened
1995

41.64925, -94.02764 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 11 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

174 traced features across 8 layers for River Valley Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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174 traced features across 8 layers for River Valley Golf Course, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
40
Fairways
22
Bunkers
6
Water
18
Greens
52
Tee pads
112.9ft
Elevation range
6,620yds
Gold tees
540yds
Longest hole
155yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2023-09-02

Height880.3 ft993.2 ft

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-15

All 5 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 5 rows.

GoldM726684contested662072.012433103310
BlackM726275contested617069.912331003070
BlackF726275contested617076.512931003070
WhiteM725452contested516566.011025552610
WhiteF725452contested516571.611925552610

Every figure as published except Card yards (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. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Gold, Black and White 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 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 453454443453444354 72
Gold 390505180400540380360390165355500155410375425195540355 6,684
Black 375490155385510355335355140340475135375355370180515325 6,275
White 315405125320405300265305115285405110340295330150415280 5,452
Handicap 517133191511714181241016682

Plan it in the Studio

Plan River Valley 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 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 a tee time

Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to River Valley Golf Course's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

Check tee times and rates

Also bookable nearby: Sugar Creek Golf Course (8.4 mi) · West Grand Golf (14 mi) · Jester Park Golf Course (16 mi)

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
Longest6,684 yds38th of 302=4,489th of 12,02512th of 34 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =1,146th of 4,105 public courses · =2,156th of 7,004 courses you can book · =4,457th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 124=59th of 201=5,603rd of 8,710=13th of 24 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =1,408th of 2,882 public courses · =2,716th of 4,936 courses you can book · =5,346th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 72.0=45th of 111=4,008th of 7,61511th of 20 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =980th of 2,412 public courses · =1,846th of 4,145 courses you can book · =3,966th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread1,232 yds between tees75th of 286=7,156th of 11,52314th of 34 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =2,095th of 3,841 public courses · =3,854th of 6,653 courses you can book · =7,017th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1995=198th of 229=7,025th of 9,368=22nd of 29 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =2,277th of 3,277 public courses · =3,963rd of 5,526 courses you can book · =5,119th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level926 ft derived 193rd of 319=3,923rd of 12,43713th of 35 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =1,481st of 4,289 public courses · =2,548th of 7,274 courses you can book · =2,719th of 9,106 18-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 progress5 of 7 built

5 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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 5 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, partly built.Contours on 18 greens, 3 of them surveyed too thinly to trust.
  • 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.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.

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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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