Karen Kjar Memorial Golf Course

About the club

Karen Kjar Memorial Golf Course is just minutes from Springfield, MO. The 18-hole regulation length golf course was opened in 1994 by Owen and Karen Kjar. Owen designed the course and then operated and managed it until March 2008 as Dream Valley Golf Course. On April 4, 2014 the family reclaimed the course at a forclosure sale and changed the name to honor Karen, who lost her battle to cancer in 1998 at the age of 47. The 18-hole layout unfurls across 6,255 yards of pristine fairways kissed by seven ponds amid a farmland perimeter teeming with lush foliage. Though mostly characterized by forgiving, tree-lined fairways, the course’s inventive layout requires adept course management with many twisting hole designs.