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Fort Madison sits along a wide bend of the Mississippi River in the far southeast corner of Iowa, where the river's bluffs and bottomlands define both the landscape and the light. Sheaffer Memorial Golf Course takes its name from one of the city's most famous exports — the Sheaffer Pen Company, which for decades made Fort Madison a name recognized far beyond the Midwest. A memorial course named in that tradition carries a certain civic weight, the kind of layout built to honor a community's identity as much as to provide a round of golf.
The terrain in this part of Iowa tends toward rolling ground where river valley topography creates natural elevation changes and varied lies — conditions that reward shot-shaping over brute force. Seasonal play here means genuine weather variance, with cool spring mornings, humid summer afternoons, and spectacular autumn color as the hardwoods along the bluffs turn.
As a municipal course serving a mid-sized river town, Sheaffer Memorial likely functions as the golf heartbeat of the local community — the kind of place where Friday afternoon tee sheets fill with regulars who've played these greens for decades.
| Tee | Yards | Rating | Slope | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black · men | 6,668 | 71.6 | 122 | 72 |
| White · men | 6,303 | 69.7 | 121 | 72 |
| Yellow · men | 5,365 | 65.3 | 111 | 72 |
| Yellow · women | 5,365 | 70.1 | 112 | 72 |
| Red · men | 5,187 | 64.5 | 109 | 72 |
| Red · women | 5,187 | 69.2 | 110 | 72 |
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