Mapleton Golf Club

Architect Scott Hoffman is becoming a master at fitting holes into properties of limited size. In an era when many of the best new courses have the benefit of hundreds of open acres to fill up, Hoffman finds intriguing ways to layer holes next to each other without repetition or claustrophobia, creating big, fresh perspectives while turning golfers around so they never feel stuck in any one place. At Mapleton, the first new private course in Sioux Falls in over six decades, he twisted holes around each other inside a footprint of less than 140 acres, using the prairie topography of hills, small ridges and subtle grade changes to define the strategies. It’s a recipe that put his last design, Lost Rail near Omaha, on our America’s Second 100 Greatest Courses ranking. The same design and construction team is behind Mapleton as well.