The year was 1968 and the Iowa Cup was born that fall. In what was then a stroke play event, both the Iowa Section PGA and Iowa Golf Association met at newly-minted Des Moines Golf & Country Club. The amateurs would capture the cup that year – by the margin of one stroke.

Fast forward to 2021 – the Iowa Cup continues for the 54th time and is now a match play, Ryder Cup style event. It will be contested this fall at Elmwood Country Club (pictured above) in Marshalltown on Sept. 23-24. The Iowa Golf Association and Iowa PGA Section, winners of the last four matches, will name honorary captains for their teams.  Bill Dickens has been named the captain of the IGA squad while the Iowa PGA captain will be Mark Egly.

Dickens was the longtime Executive Director of the IGA, serving in that capacity from 2001 until 2016, where he transitioned into more of an advisory role until his full retirement at the end of 2020.

Egly is consistently ranked as one of the “Best Golf Instructors” in the Midwest and in the United States by all the major golf publications, including being Golf Digests #1 Ranked instructor in Iowa for a decade as well as earning the PGA of Iowa’s Teacher of the Year multiple times.

The Iowa Cup Matches’ schedule will be as follows
-Thursday (Sept 23) morning – Four-Ball Matches
-Thursday afternoon – Foursome Matches
-Thursday evening – Player’s dinner
-Friday (Sept 24) – Singles matches
-The Cup will be presented to the winning team following play on Friday

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Team IGA
Jon Brown
Connor Peck
Ethan Mechling
Trent Lindenman
Kelly Brown
Scot Cook
Luke Miller
Brian Allison
Cody Holck
Jeff Collett
Joe Palmer
Cole Davis
Dusty Stewart
Aaron O’Brien
Jon Olson
Ryan Horner
Dave Gaer
Gary Ellis
Ron Peterson
Terry Cook

Team ISPGA
Mark Atchison
John Bermel
Chris Black
Chad Callan
Matt Erger
Darin Fisher
Jay Giannetto
Judd Gibb
David Lawrence
Sean McCarty
Ben Montgomery
Chad Proehl
Jeff Schmid
John Shawver
Davis Sutton
Tracy Vest
Todd Fowler
Bryan Luedtke
Dave Ranney
Jeff Smith