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Tournament Club of Iowa is an 18-hole public golf course in Polk City, Iowa.

Designed by Arnold Palmer. It plays 7,041 yards from the King tees, rated 73.5/139 (checked 2026-08-21).

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18
holes
71
par
7,041
yards (tips)
139
slope (king)
The shape of the round · King teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — KING TEES553420186593185480386234456356376442526325195231638459152433455364748394104114124135144153163175184PAROUT 3,493 YDSIN 3,548 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
Arnold Palmer reported
access
public
address
Timber Valley Circle, Polk City, IA, 50226
elevation
868 ft derived
opened
2003

41.78450, -93.72239 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 37 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

216 traced features across 8 layers for Tournament Club of Iowa, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery.

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216 traced features across 8 layers for Tournament Club of Iowa, drawn over NAIP 2023 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
23
Fairways
26
Bunkers
4
Water
18
Greens
72
Tee pads
7,041yds
King tees
638yds
Longest hole
185yds
Shortest hole

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

Tees & ratings

Ratingsreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

All 8 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 8 rows.

KingM71704173.513934933548
King/Palmer71673872.513633663372
PalmerM71651671.113531973319
Palmer/Deacon71625569.713131163139
Deacon teesM71615369.0122
Deacon teesF71615374.6137
Deacon71611368.612630433070
Legend teesF71503969.2122

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

Scorecardreported, not from the clubchecked 2026-08-21

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 543534434444543354 71
King 553420186593185480386234456356376442526325195231638459 7,041
King/Palmer 553386186593185448386234395347376427526325182188560441 6,738
Palmer 527386170578164448359170395347369427504301182188560441 6,516
Palmer/Deacon 527386170548164423350170378347369386504258182174520399 6,255
Deacon 511365156548157423350155378326354386485258168174520399 6,113

We don't hold a stroke index for this course's holes, so that row is not above. The yardages are every figure we hold hole by hole.

No per-hole yardages are published for Deacon tees and Legend tees, so they are not on the card above.

The Studio

The Studio can't plan Tournament Club of Iowa hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 216 traced features, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • 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

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

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Rates change by day and by season, so we send you to Tournament Club of Iowa's own booking page rather than quoting a figure that was true the week we captured it.

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Also bookable nearby: Jester Park Golf Course (3.2 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
Longest7,041 yds13th of 302=1,520th of 12,0254th of 34 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =358th of 4,105 public courses · =681st of 7,004 courses you can book · =1,516th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 1397th of 201=1,166th of 8,7102nd of 24 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =214th of 2,882 public courses · =445th of 4,936 courses you can book · =1,140th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 73.5=23rd of 111=1,989th of 7,6158th of 20 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =424th of 2,412 public courses · =841st of 4,145 courses you can book · =1,973rd of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,002 yds between tees14th of 286=2,235th of 11,5235th of 34 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =541st of 3,841 public courses · =1,069th of 6,653 courses you can book · =2,191st of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 2003=223rd of 229=8,576th of 9,36828th of 29 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =3,022nd of 3,277 public courses · =5,070th of 5,526 courses you can book · =6,366th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level868 ft derived =230th of 319=4,403rd of 12,43729th of 35 in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metro area · =1,695th of 4,289 public courses · =2,855th of 7,274 courses you can book · =3,071st 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 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 5 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 8 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, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.5 of 7 background details — we don't hold a phone number and the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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