The Legacy Golf Club

The Legacy is Norwalk's defining golf-adjacent master-planned community: an 18-hole public, daily-fee course built by the Manning family (opened May 23, 2002, the second public course the family has owned in central Iowa) that became the organizing design element and brand name for a large residential development built out afterward by multiple homebuilders. The development -- which absorbed what was originally planned as the Colonial Meadows subdivision -- now totals over 900 residences across a distinctive circular street layout completed in 2018, with homes ranging from Hubbell Homes' Townhomes at The Legacy to Tanzanite Homes' custom single-family homesites on numbered plats (including Legacy 19, one of several sequentially platted phases of the same overall Legacy development, not a separate or unrelated project) marketed specifically for their frontage on or proximity to the course.

For a golf-oriented buyer the key fact to understand is the separation between the golf business and the residential community: the course itself is independently owned and operated (Legacy Golf Club Inc) as an ordinary public daily-fee facility with no membership program of any kind, while the residential development has its own, separate homeowners association (Legacy Owners Association) and its own community clubhouse and pool, distinct from the golf clubhouse. The golf course briefly hosted the PGA Tour Champions' Principal Charity Classic in 2005, the only year the event was not played at Glen Oaks or (from 2013) Wakonda Club.