
Spring Hills Course
Spring Hills Country Club
About this course
Spring Hills Country Club sits in Mallard, a small community in northwest Iowa's Palo Alto County. The course serves the surrounding agricultural region, offering a traditional country club experience in an area where golf facilities provide important social and recreational anchors for rural towns. The landscape here is characterized by the gently rolling terrain typical of north-central Iowa, shaped by glacial activity that left behind modest elevation changes and natural drainage patterns. The routing likely takes advantage of the area's native topography, with holes playing across open farmland that has been shaped into fairways and greens. Trees planted during the course's development would now provide definition and strategic interest, framing holes and creating risk-reward decisions for members familiar with the layout. Water features, whether natural or constructed, may come into play on select holes, adding variety to what is fundamentally a parkland design suited to the region's climate and growing conditions. Spring Hills serves as a gathering place for the local community, hosting member events, junior programs, and social functions that extend beyond golf. The clubhouse provides dining and event space that reflects the traditions of Midwestern country clubs, where multi-generational families often share membership and the club plays a central role in community life. For golfers traveling through northwest Iowa, the course represents the kind of welcoming, unpretentious facility that has sustained the game in smaller American towns for generations.
Quick facts
- Location
- Mallard, IA, USA
- Access
- Public
- Year built
- 1970
- Holes
- 9
- Par
- 36
- Length
- 2,757 yards
- Difficulty
- 36.1/113
Getting there
The journey to Spring Hills Country Club begins at Des Moines International Airport (DSM), roughly two hours northwest through the gently rolling farmland of central Iowa. The drive traces Highway 71 north through Pocahontas County, where the landscape opens into vast stretches of corn and soybean fields punctuated by grain elevators and distant farmsteads. As you approach Mallard - a quiet town of fewer than three hundred souls - the road narrows and the pace slows, the final turn onto the club grounds feeling less like an arrival at a destination than a discovery of something intentionally tucked away in the rural heartland.
FAQ
Common questions about Spring Hills
Ratings, design, and course details pulled from Course Vaults.
Yes. Spring Hills is listed as welcoming public or guest play on Course Vaults.
Par at Spring Hills is 36.
Spring Hills plays 2,757 yards from the back tees on Course Vaults.
The slope rating at Spring Hills is 113.
Spring Hills is a 9-hole course.



