Mapleton Golf Club

The course is an 18-hole championship layout designed by architect Scott Hoffman, built by Landscapes Unlimited on 210 acres of natural prairie terrain along Slip Up Creek. Construction broke ground in late 2023 and the course opened for member play on August 30, 2025. The club also includes a lighted par-3 short course for night golf and a full practice facility with a driving range. No competitive tournament hosting history was found for the course, consistent with its very recent opening -- there is no evidence to independently verify beyond its short operating history at the time of this research pass.

Mapleton is a private, members-only club; the golf course is not open to the general public or to resort/daily-fee play. Membership is a separate transaction from any home or lot purchase in the adjacent Mapleton Highlands development -- no evidence was found of a bundled, deeded, or mandatory golf-membership arrangement tied to buying a home or lot there. A buyer purchasing a home adjacent to the course should not assume that purchase includes or guarantees club access; membership runs through the club's own capped, fee-based application process (reported nearly full shortly after the club's 2025 opening), open to applicants both inside and outside the immediate area (via the national membership category).

Mapleton Highlands, the 160-acre residential development immediately adjacent to the club (built by Van Buskirk Companies), was planned and marketed around the golf course from the outset -- distinct from the older, organically-grown neighborhoods that happen to sit near Sioux Falls's established in-town private clubs. An initial phase of roughly 16 lots directly adjacent to the course opened alongside the club, connected to the clubhouse by cart paths, with a further phase of villa-style 'cottage' homes (marketed separately as Mapleton Highlands Cottages) also planned for the development.

Club life centers on golf itself rather than a broad country-club amenity slate: fine dining, a lounge and patio, private meeting/event space, a practice facility, and night golf on the short course, plus a planned set of overnight member/guest suites. The club has been explicit in local coverage that it intentionally does not offer a pool, tennis, or large banquet facilities, which distinguishes its lifestyle positioning from the full-amenity Country Club of Sioux Falls.

Mapleton sits in Mapleton Township, Minnehaha County, roughly five miles north of downtown Sioux Falls near where I-229 passes under I-90 -- an edge-of-metro location rather than an established in-town neighborhood, which is part of why a purpose-built adjacent residential development (Mapleton Highlands) was possible here in a way it was not for Sioux Falls's older, already-built-out in-town private clubs.