The Point Golf & Event Center

The Point Golf & Event Center sits in Elk Point, a small community in the southeastern corner of South Dakota near the confluence of the Big Sioux and Missouri Rivers. Designed by Ronnie Gobel, the course serves this rural region along the Nebraska and Iowa borders, where the landscape transitions from river valley bottomlands to rolling prairie uplands. The terrain in this part of the state offers natural elevation changes and open vistas characteristic of the northern Great Plains. The facility functions as both a golf course and event venue, a common model for smaller communities where the golf operation anchors a broader recreational and social gathering space. Courses in this region typically work with the native grasses and agricultural character of the surrounding countryside, and routing often takes advantage of whatever natural contours and water features exist in the relatively flat terrain. The climate brings warm summers suitable for extended golf seasons and cold winters that limit year-round play. Elk Point itself has a population of roughly two thousand residents, making the course an important recreational asset for the immediate area and nearby towns. The facility likely draws members and daily-fee players from within a thirty- to forty-mile radius, including visitors traveling along Interstate 29, which runs north-south through the region connecting Sioux Falls to Sioux City.