Golf Club at Red Rock (Rapid City, SD)
Rapid City, Pennington County, South Dakota · Black Hills & Rapid City golf market
- Access
- public
- Holes
- 18
- Architect(s)
- Ron Farris
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The Golf Club at Red Rock is a public, 18-hole, par-72 course designed by architect Ron Farris on the hogback ridge dividing Rapid City, opened in 2003. Founders Kevin Buntrock and Donny Ward bought the raw land in 2000 with no existing infrastructure -- Farris reportedly drew early hole routings on his hand and in the dirt before any formal plans existed -- and built roads and utilities themselves, developing and selling residential lots alongside the course to fund construction. The result, per a 2025 Rapid City Business Journal retrospective, was effectively 'a 25-year overnight success': a course repeatedly rated among South Dakota's top public layouts.
That shared origin matters for buyers: the surrounding Red Rock Subdivision (also marketed as Red Rock Estates) is a genuine 360-acre golf-course community, not an unrelated neighborhood that happens to sit nearby. It is covenant-protected and HOA-governed, with custom single-family homes -- many overlooking or backing directly onto the course -- typically priced from roughly $550,000 to over $1 million. The nearby, separately built Colonial Pine Hills townhome development sits about a mile away and is a distinct, unrelated project (built by New House Builds LLC), not part of the Red Rock community.
Golf & Course
The course plays to roughly 7,000 yards at par 72, with rolling fairways, dramatic elevation changes, links-style bunkers, and USGA-spec greens, weaving between the surrounding housing development and open hillsides dotted with ponderosa pine. It has been named to Golfweek's Top 200 Residential Golf Courses list (2019) and voted Best Golf Course in the Black Hills.
Membership & Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Golf at Red Rock is sold as ordinary public play, with online tee times and seasonal/annual passes available to anyone -- no membership program, initiation fee, or resident-exclusive rate was found this session. Owning a home in Red Rock Estates does not include or require golf access beyond what any public golfer can buy; the community's value to a golf-oriented buyer is course frontage/views and the shared development history, not private access.
Living in Golf Club at Red Rock (Rapid City, SD)
Red Rock Estates/Red Rock Subdivision is a 360-acre, HOA-governed community co-developed with the golf course from 2000 onward, with modest HOA dues covering common-area upkeep. Homes are predominantly custom-built, upscale single-family houses on lots of roughly 0.3 acres or more, many with golf-course frontage or views, typically priced from about $550,000 to over $1 million.
Location & Surrounding Area
Red Rock sits on Rapid City's western edge off Sheridan Lake Road, on the hogback ridge that divides the city -- a different submarket from Hart Ranch's location south of town off Highway 16.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current green fee and season-pass pricing directly with the club -- no dollar figures were confirmed this session.
- Confirm current Red Rock Estates HOA dues directly with the HOA (redrockhoa.org) -- described as 'modest' but no figure was found.
- Confirm whether Colonial Pine Hills (a separate, nearby townhome development) has any formal relationship to Red Rock Estates or is entirely unrelated, as this session's sources indicate.
Notable
- Designed by architect Ron Farris and opened in 2003; founders Kevin Buntrock and Donny Ward developed the golf course and surrounding residential lots together starting in 2000.
- Named to Golfweek's Top 200 Residential Golf Courses in the US list for 2019.
- The surrounding Red Rock Estates/Subdivision is a 360-acre, covenant-protected, HOA-governed community with homes from roughly $550,000 to over $1 million.
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