Minnehaha Country Club

Minnehaha Country Club sits in Sioux Falls, South Dakota's largest city, where it has served as a private club for the local community since its founding in the early twentieth century. The current course layout is the work of Dick Nugent, a Chicago-based architect known for his work across the upper Midwest during the latter decades of the 1900s. Nugent's designs typically emphasize strategic bunkering and green complexes that reward thoughtful course management, characteristics that define many of his prairie and plains layouts. The course occupies terrain typical of eastern South Dakota, where the landscape transitions from the flat agricultural plains to more varied topography shaped by the Big Sioux River drainage. This setting provides natural movement and elevation change uncommon in the region, with holes routed through mature tree corridors and across gently rolling ground. The design takes advantage of these features to create variety in hole character and shot requirements throughout the round. As a longstanding private club in South Dakota's commercial center, Minnehaha serves as a social and recreational hub for Sioux Falls business and civic leaders. The club maintains traditional country club amenities and hosts regional amateur competitions that draw players from across the state and neighboring areas. The course represents one of the more established private golf facilities in South Dakota, reflecting both the architectural sensibilities of its era and the practical demands of year-round club life in the northern plains climate.