Mapletøn Golf Club

Looking forward to the addition of the Slip Up Six to the golf experience in 2026.

Thanks for coming out, looking forward to the next round!

Excellent work @HoffmanSl!

A year apart — the difference speaks for itself.

@Top100Rick Rick, thank you very much for the kind words and coming to visit Mapleton! I hope you enjoy your trip to Sutton Bay. If you find youreelf in our area again, please come back! Best wishes, Danny

Mapleton Golf Club Scott Hoffman - 2025 Private After years designing some of Tom Fazio’s best golf courses, Scott Hoffman now has the limelight to himself…and he is making it count. Scott wasn’t in a hurry to build a follow up to Lost Rail, but when he saw this site in Sioux Falls, SD and saw the vision of Founder Danny Amundson, he knew it was right. A rollicking site with mountains of sand right near town, it’s perfect for golf. Mapleton, like Lost Rail, is a pure Golf Club. No tennis or pools, it’s about the golf. The golfer IQ is high, which means play is fast and there are some sticks here. We finished in just over 3 hours on a busy afternoon. The land is made for golf. Sandy soil that drains great and is made to be firm and bouncy. The ground movement is excellent and central to the design strategy. Speed slots and sideboards can be played to gain advantage, you can take on the fairway bunkers or add yardage to stay safe. Slip Up Creek runs through the course and adds strategy and challenge. The greens are wild. Big greens with many pin positions, the golf course will play so different day to day. The internal contours are no joke, they affect your putts but also can create great options for your chips and pitches. I was saved by them and also punished by them. A cool Hoffman signature is the clubhouse par 3. At both here and Lost Rail, a gorgeous par 3 tee box sits right in front of the clubhouse. If it’s a busy day on the porch, you may have some hecklers there ready for your tee shot. The hole variety is excellent. Big holes that demand a good drive and a hybrid for normal players, to a very realistic drivable par 4. You will use every club in the bag. The fairways being wide and the green being large, you won’t lose many balls…but that doesn’t mean your score will be low. It challenges without punishing, the best kind of challenge. The course still needs grow in time and the rough fescue will need a couple years to really get where it needs to be, but it’s already clear that this place is a huge win. The course is awesome, the clubhouse is amazing, the restaurant is already packing in the members. A 6 hole lit par 3 course will join the fray next year along with 12 single suite rooms in the cottage. Mapleton is the place to be.

Opening Weekend.

No. 18 is the perfect exclamation point. A bold tee shot challenges the right side and reduces yardage into the green. The view from the fairway is amazing, but beware the bunkers. Make birdie in front of the clubhouse patio and the post-round drink will be extra satisfying.

The fleet is here—ready to roll.

T-minus 14 days until Mapletøn comes alive.

The old grain silo draws all the attention at No. 8, but don’t let the scenery distract you. This approach shot, influenced by two knobs (short-left and center-back), is one of Mapleton’s most intriguing and strategic. Birdies are available on this one-of-a-kind par 4.

The par-4 opener offers a sneak peek at some key Mapletøn themes: wide fairways, dramatic contours, long views and — of course — spectacular sand. Challenge the right side with a big drive and you can attack a horizon-line green, the largest on the course (9,300 sq ft).

One of the biggest & boldest greens opens the back 9 with a bang. The contouring is pure art.  Enhancing the drama, the tees are right off the clubhouse patio. Hit a good one and you can tip your hat to spectators. Hit a bad one and…well…you might hang your head in shame.

Every great course needs a punishing par 4 in the home stretch. Mapletøn’s 16th demands a golfer’s absolute best. The target is a gorgeous green in the shadow of an old elm. To get there you must avoid tons of sand, including a huge waste bunker left. Par is an achievement.

You can avoid the hazard for a shot or two, but conservative play has a cost. Eventually you must confront the creek. The skinny green, tilting right to left, leans against the trouble. Downwind, you’ll see an occasional eagle here. You’ll also see 8s. Don’t slip up. 2/2

One of Mapleton’s signature natural features is Slip Up Creek, wiggling through the valley like a toddler’s pencil line. The rippling water is the star of the show at the par-5 7th, where its strategic value matches its beauty. 1/2

The vision of formal greenside and fairway bunkers — Pro/Angle sand imported from Ohio didn’t change. But in areas that could’ve been bluegrass rough, Hoffman chose waste bunkers. There’s a strong tradition of such a look on iconic courses.

Between you and the horizon green, there’s more than 1 acre of rugged waste sand peppered with fescue. Yikes. It wasn’t part of the original plan. So what happened? A stunning discovery. When scrapers cut open the old cow pasture, they found golf’s version of gold. Sand.

On the course map, the 4th hole at Mapletøn looks simple enough. Benign. 340 from the back tees. A fairway stretching almost 80 yards wide. No major hazards or elevation change. Where’s the fun? Then you step to the tee and behold a scene that looks foreign to Sioux Falls. 1/

Happy 4th, South Dakota. Enjoy a weekend of family, friends and fireworks. Here at Mapletøn, the booms are coming soon.