The original owner of this property in north-central Nebraska first contacted Gil Hanse to design the course in the early 2000s. It took nearly 20 years—and different ownership—to complete the task, but the wait was worth it. Opened in 2021, the members-only CapRock Ranch is an invigorating addition to the golf wonderland that is the vast Nebraska Sandhills, where architects strive to do as little as possible. Much of the course explores the gentle, grass-covered dunesland, and the other—eight holes, to be exact—frolic along and over the pine-forest rim of the Snake River Canyon, dropping several hundred feet to the bottom. Scoring in both splash and sublimity, CapRock is uncommonly diverse and picturesque, a meeting of melodic minimalism and dopamine rush.