Most visitors to Marion Country Club arrive via Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport (ICT), roughly an hour's drive north through the gently rolling prairie of central Kansas. The route traces I-135 before peeling east onto quiet two-lane highways, where the landscape opens into a patchwork of wheat fields and pastureland punctuated by grain elevators on the horizon. As you enter Marion - a town of fewer than 2,000 souls - the road narrows and the pace slows, delivering you to a classic small-town American club where the only fanfare is the warm greeting at the clubhouse door.