Landscapes Golf Management extends deal with Sioux Falls courses

The management deal includes three courses and is highlighted by a significant profitability turnaround since 2017.


Landscapes Golf Management has been granted a multi-year extension to continue operating three golf courses owned by the city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Under the company’s leadership since 2018, Elmwood, Prairie Green and Kuehn Park golf courses have each realized up to 400 percent increases in cart and green fees, food and beverage, pro shop, driving range and annual pass revenue — a seven-figure turnaround in profitability.

Landscapes Golf Management’s turnkey operation includes staff recruitment and training, property maintenance, marketing and sales, clubhouse operations, merchandising, food and beverage, IT and financial management.

“Perfecting course conditions, country club-like service and community building are keys to high performance,” Landscapes Golf Management president Tom Everett said. “Our talented corporate and on-site teams continue to make playing Sioux Falls courses phenomenal experiences time and again.”

“Outsourcing operations to Landscapes Golf Management has been a terrific decision,” said Don Kearney, the director of Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation. “The company has done a tremendous job engaging the residents in the Sioux Falls region by providing outstanding customer service, great value and exceptional playing conditions while driving incredible bottom line results.”

Sioux Fall’s flagship Elmwood Golf Course presents a 27-hole, parkland-style layout with tree-lined fairways, domed greens and small, classic bunkers. In recent years, the course was re-grassed tee to green, new irrigation installed and practice facilities expanded. A new five-hole, par-3 course was also constructed.

Prairie Green Golf Course lies amid rolling, generous fairways lined with sprawling bunkers, stunning prairie wetlands and wide, lipped greens guarded by bunkers. Kuehn Park Golf Course, meanwhile, is the area’s only public, nine-hole executive layout.