Sand Valley

Sand Valley's six courses were built in phases beginning in 2017 across genuine, wind-formed inland sand dunes rare east of the Nebraska Sandhills. Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw's original Sand Valley course (2017) and David McLay Kidd's wider, more dramatic Mammoth Dunes (2018) established the resort's reputation; Tom Doak's Sedge Valley (2024, a shorter, walking-only par-68) and The Lido (2023, a meticulous recreation of a celebrated, long-lost 1917 Macdonald/Raynor design originally on Long Island) have driven a second wave of major national golf-media attention. The 17-hole short course Sandbox and newest 12-hole Commons course round out the golf offering.

Golf at Sand Valley is sold on a resort green-fee/stay-and-play basis, open to the public and resort guests generally, not gated behind a private membership. Estate and Cottage homesite owners are documented as receiving priority access to tee-time bookings -- a meaningful convenience but not exclusive or bundled access -- and may opt into the Sand Valley Rental Program (60/40 resort/owner revenue split) when their home is not in personal use. No source found in this session states that a golf club membership is included with, or required for, homesite ownership.

Sand Valley's residential real estate is organized into several named neighborhoods rather than a single subdivision: Sedge Village (36 Estate and Cottage homesites, 4-30 acres for Estate sites, around a 17-acre lake), The Lido (golf-front homesites along the recreated Lido course), Mammoth Conservancy (estate homesites, e.g. a confirmed $2.65M listing with a Booth Hansen-designed home), and lake-front sites along the newer Foxglove Lake. Design partners for Sedge Village's four floor plans include Booth Hansen, Northworks, and Kubala Washatko. This session found no evidence that these named neighborhoods carry meaningfully different golf-access terms from one another -- all appear to operate under the same resort real estate program (priority tee times, optional rental pool) -- so they are treated here as a single access-model community rather than split into multiple access tiers on unverified assumptions.

Beyond golf, Sand Valley offers hiking and biking trails through the dune landscape, grass tennis, fishing and kayaking on its lakes, and a range of dining venues; Estate and Cottage homes feature floor-to-ceiling windows, outdoor fire pits, screened porches, and trail access.

Sand Valley sits in Wisconsin's Central Sands region near Nekoosa and Rome (Adams/Wood County line), roughly 20 miles from Wisconsin Rapids and about a 2.5-hour drive from both Milwaukee and Minneapolis -- a genuinely remote, destination-golf setting rather than a suburban or lake-resort-town location.