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Golfweek’s Best 2022: Top public and private courses in South Dakota

Golfweek’s course-rating program shines a light on the top golf courses in South Dakota.

South Dakota doesn’t have a large population: fewer than 900,000 residents. That doesn’t mean there isn’t solid golf to played there, and Golfweek’s Best shines a light on the top tracks in the Mount Rushmore State.

Golfweek’s Best offers many lists of course rankings, with that of top public-access courses in each state among the most popular. All the courses on this list allow public access in some fashion, be it standard daily green fees, through a resort or by staying at an affiliated hotel. If there’s a will, there’s a tee time.

Also popular are the Golfweek’s Best rankings of top private courses in each state, and that list for South Dakota’s private offerings is likewise included below.

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(m): Modern course, built in or after 1960
(c): Classic course, built before 1960

Note: If there is a number in the parenthesis with the m or c, that indicates where that course ranks among Golfweek’s Best top 200 modern or classic courses. 

Kansas State vs South Dakota Prediction, Game Preview

Kansas State vs South Dakota game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 1 game on Saturday, September 3

Kansas State vs South Dakota prediction, game preview, how to watch. Week 1, Saturday, September 3

Kansas State vs South Dakota How To Watch

Date: Saturday, September 3
Game Time: 7:00 ET
Venue: Bill Snyder Family Stadium, Manhattan, KS
How To Watch: Big 12 Network/ESPN+
Record: Kansas State (0-0), South Dakota (0-0)
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Kansas State vs South Dakota Game Preview

Why South Dakota Will Win

The Coyotes are sound enough all the way around to make this interesting.

They’ve got a strong defense coming into 2022, the balance is there on offense, and they’ve got the lines to hold up.

They could use a little explosion in this, but they have the special teams to match was Kansas State does, the passing game will be efficient, and the defensive side has seven starters with veterans who should know what they’re doing to keep new Wildcat QB Adrian Martinez from taking off.

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Why Kansas State Will Win

Martinez should be the perfect fit for what the Kansas State coaching staff wants to do.

The offensive line will be improved and should take over the game right away, Deuce Vaughn is one of the nation’s best all-around backs, and Martinez will be dangerous when the Coyote linebackers worry about where 22 is.

South Dakota might be sound, but it’s not going to dominate the tempo or control the time of possession battle. Kansas State will be happy to get the explosion out of the backfield, but it’ll start out by running and running some more to keep the chains moving.

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What’s Going To Happen

Kansas State will have moments when it’s a struggle and things don’t seem quite right, and then the big plays will come from the stars.

It’ll be a trickle of production that turns into a tidal wave. Just when it seems like things are bogging down, Martinez and Vaughn will each rip off big runs to take over.

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Kansas State vs South Dakota Prediction, Line

Kansas State 38, South Dakota 14
Line: Kansas State -25, o/u: 46.5
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These nine states have never hosted a PGA Tour event

There are still nine states that are still hoping their day in the sun is still to come.

This week the PGA Tour visits the First State for the time.

Wilmington Country Club will play host, marking the PGA Tour’s first-ever event in the state of Delaware and the 10th different venue to host the BMW Championship since the inception of the FedEx Cup in 2007.

“You’ve got to hit it as far as you can and hit a lot of fairways,” advised BMW defending champion and reigning FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay.

Delaware becomes the 41st state in the union to host a Tour event, but that means there are still nine states that are still hoping their day in the sun is still to come.

Maine is one of the nine remaining states that have never hosted a Tour event. Professional golf has been absent from northeast New England, five states within the Mountain Time Zone and Alaska. Some states barely avoided making the list. Nebraska was spared solely by the 1933 Nebraska Open, Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene hosted the 1992 Merrill Lynch Shootout and Arkansas made headlines with the Arlington Hotel Open from 1955-63.

Some of these states have hosted Nationwide, Champions and LPGA events, but the locals are waiting patiently for Rory, Tiger and Jordan to grace them with their presence.

Here’s a list of some of the golf courses that could potentially host the stars of the PGA Tour someday. (Special thanks to longtime Golfweek reader and journalist Peter Kollmann, who helped with the research.)

A green sky leaves South Dakota residents puzzled after a powerful storm

What does it mean when the sky turns green?

On July 5, storms rolled through Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Classified as a derecho, a wind storm with gusts of at least 58 mph, the weather wasn’t out of the ordinary at first. After all, the state has had two derechos recently. What did come as a surprise were the bright green skies many locals witnessed. Puzzled over the unusual color, many South Dakota residents turned to social media to post pictures and find out what was happening.

Argus Leader 911, a Twitter account that tracks crime, accidents, and fire in Sioux Falls, reached out to its followers. “As the storm passes, and as long as you can safely do so, please tell us what you’re seeing. Is there damage in your area? Hail? Broken branches? Share with us,” the account posted. In reply, many Twitter users posted their photos of the green, stormy skies.

While eye-catching, the unusual color doesn’t necessarily indicate anything about the weather, according to Peter Rogers, a meteorologist with the Weather Service’s office in Sioux Falls. Instead, the color relates to how sunlight interacts with the atmosphere during a storm.

Scientific American elaborates, writing that while “researchers remain undecided about the exact mechanisms that cause the sky to appear green in certain thunderstorms … most point to the liquid water content in the air. The moisture particles are so small that they can bend the light and alter its appearance to the observer. These water droplets absorb red light, making the scattered light appear blue. If this blue scattered light is set against an environment heavy in red light—during sunset for instance—and a dark gray thunderstorm cloud, the net effect can make the sky appear faintly green.”

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Angler lands ‘gigantic’ flathead catfish, shatters 16-year-old record

A South Dakota angler has shattered a 16-year-old state record with the recent catch of a 67-pound, 8-ounce flathead catfish.

A South Dakota angler has shattered a 16-year-old state record with the recent catch of a 67-pound, 8-ounce flathead catfish.

Ethan Evink, visiting from Iowa, caught the massive flathead while fishing with cutbait at dawn on the Missouri River in Union County.

According to South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks, Evink’s catch shatters a record (63 pounds, 8 ounces) that had stood since 2006.

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The agency announced the new record Thursday, stating on Facebook:

“Ethan Evink of Hospers, Iowa, has set the new state record for flathead catfish at a gigantic 67 pounds 8 ounces!

“This monster came in at 51.5 inches long with a girth of 32.5 inches from the Missouri River in Union County. Ethan caught the flathead catfish at 5 a.m. using cutbait. Congratulations Ethan!”

For the sake of comparison, the all-tackle world record for flathead catfish stands at 123 pounds. That catch occurred at Elk City Reservoir in Kansas in 1998.

–Image showing Ethan Evink with his record flatheaad catfish is courtesy of South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks

South Dakota staggers South Dakota State on deflected Hail Mary TD

South Dakota with a miraculous victory over South Dakota State

South Dakota scored a stunning victory over rival South Dakota State on Saturday, 23-20, on one of the most amazing Hail Mary’s as the game ended.

Carson Camp eluded pressure from South Dakota State’s rush and threw it to about the 4-yard line where it was tipped several times. Webb outjumped teammate Caleb Vander Esch at the 1 and took a step into the end zone.

Caleb Vander Esch’s cousin is Leighton Vander Esch of the Dallas Cowboys.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” USD linebacker Jack Cochrane told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. “I didn’t have a really good view, so I was watching the video board and I did a double-take, like, we caught it? It was hard to describe.”

There are those who think South Dakota came back from the dead.

Eight seconds earlier, SD State decided to try and run out the clock on a fourth-and-2.

Rather than punting, Chris Oladokun took the snap, scrambled around but pressure from the defense forced him to throw the ball. Oladokun threw it as high as he could and the clock ticked down to zero as it sailed out of bounds. But after a review the officials put one second back on the clock, and USD pulled off the miracle.

“We practice that play, we’ve timed it ourselves,” South Dakota State coach John Stiegelmeier said. “It’s eight or nine seconds. That’s how fickle the game of football is. One second and a whole different outcome.”

Angler ‘in shock’ after landing record smallmouth bass

A South Dakota angler who was practicing for a recent pro bass-fishing tournament said he was “in shock” after landing a state-record smallmouth bass.

A South Dakota angler who was practicing for a recent pro bass-fishing tournament said he was “in shock” after landing a state-record smallmouth bass.

Troy Diede, of Sioux Falls, hooked the 7-pound, 4-ounce smallmouth while casting an Eco Pro Tungsten Ned Rig in mid-July on Lake Oahe.

South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks recently approved the catch as a state record. Diede, who hopes to qualify for this year’s Bassmaster Classic, recalled his epic experience this week in a Bassmaster feature.

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Diede said he hooked the 20.75-inch smallmouth bass the morning after catching and releasing a 6-pound smallmouth that looked equally massive.

“I didn’t even make 10 casts and I hooked into another good-sized fish,” Diede told Bassmaster. “After about 90 seconds I realized it had the same similarities as that 6-pounder. It was fighting the same way, it’s taking me forever.

“I only had 7-pound Gamma line on. It started running out of gas after about two minutes and I didn’t realize how big it was until I picked it up. I belly landed it like a football and held it under my arm and I was in shock.”

Diede obtained several unofficial weights before he was able to deliver the fish, alive in an aerated boat well, to a certified scale.

After a Game, Fish and Parks biologist confirmed the catch, Diede released the smallmouth precisely where he had hooked the fish. He beat the previous South Dakota record by about an ounce.

For the sake of comparison, the International Game Fish Assn. lists as the all-tackle world record an 11-pound, 15-ounce smallmouth bass caught at Dale Hollow Lake in Tennessee in July 1955.

–Images courtesy of South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks

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Clarkston Kicker Stephen Rusnak to join Michigan State football as preferred walk-on

Clarkston Kicker and Punter Stephen Rusnak to join Michigan State football as preferred walk-on

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Michigan State football is adding another kicker, and another punter. On Thursday, former Clarkston kicker and punter Stephen Rusnak announced that he is rescinding his letter of intent to South Dakota of the FCS to instead attend Michigan State as a walk-on.

Rusnak will join the team immediately for the 2021 season. He will replace Cole Hahn on the roster for this upcoming season.

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Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2020: South Dakota

Golf Club at Red Rock is No. 1 on the list of Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play 2020: South Dakota.

It comes as little surprise that South Dakota doesn’t have an overabundance of golf courses. With a population of under 900,000, the Mount Rushmore State has one of the least dense populations in the United States.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t worthy courses in South Dakota, of course.

Golfweek ranks courses by compiling the average ratings – on a points basis of 1 to 10 – of its more than 750 raters to create several industry-leading lists of courses, including the popular Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for facilities that allow non-member tee times. These generally are defined as courses accessible to resort guests or regular daily-fee players.

The Golf Club at Red Rock in Rapid City tops the list of Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play for South Dakota. Designed by course architect Ron Farris, Red Rock opened in 2002 and, starting at a base of 3,800 feet above sea level, features more than 200 feet of elevation changes and long views across the foothills of the Black Hills near the mouth of Red Rock Canyon.

Rapid City is also home to No. 2 on the Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list for South Dakota: Hart Ranch, designed by Patrick Wyss and opened in 1984. Nos. 3 and 4 on the state list, Prairie Green and Willow Run, are both in Sioux Falls. No. 5 is back in Rapid City at Meadowbrook.

Willow Run in South Dakota (Courtesy of Willow Run)

Golfweek’s Best also ranks private courses state by state, and the top-rated layout in South Dakota of any kind is the private Sutton Bay. Built atop wide-open bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, Sutton Bay was designed by Graham Marsh and opened in 2003. The course is not only No. 1 in South Dakota, it is No. 70 on Golfweek’s Best list for all modern courses built in or after 1960 in the U.S.

Minnehaha Country Club in Sioux Falls is the No. 2-ranked private course in South Dakota, and Dakota Dunes Country Club – just across the state line from Sioux City, Iowa – is No. 3.

Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play in South Dakota

1. Golf Club at Red Rock

Rapid City (m)

2. Hart Ranch

Rapid City (m)

3. Prairie Green

Sioux Falls (m)

4. Willow Run

Sioux Falls (m)

5. Meadowbrook

Rapid City (m)

Golfweek’s Best Private Courses 2020 in South Dakota

1. Sutton Bay

Agar (No. 70 m)

2. Minnehaha

Sioux Falls (c)

3. Dakota Dunes

Dakota Dunes (m)

(m): modern; (c): classic

Golfweek’s Best 2020

How we rate them

The members of our course-ratings panel continually evaluate courses and rate them based on our 10 criteria. They also file a single, overall rating on each course. Those overall ratings on each course are averaged together to produce a final rating for each course. Then each course is ranked against other courses in its state, or nationally, to produce the final rankings.

Texans set to have virtual visit with South Dakota DT Kameron Cline

The Houston Texans conducted a virtual visit with former South Dakota defensive tackle Kameron Cline.

The Houston Texans continue their search for a defensive tackle to replace veteran talent lost in free agency.

According to Justin Melo at the Draft Wire, the Texans have a virtual meeting with former South Dakota defensive tackle Kameron Cline setup for later in the week. The 6-4, 295-pound defensive tackle had a meeting already with the Minnesota Vikings, a club that was going to have him meet in person until the COVID-19 pandemic altered the entire NFL offseason. It is not clear if the Texans similarly had an in-person meeting originally arranged with Cline.

According to Cline, he is better suited as a run defender than a pass rusher.

“As of right now, I’m more advanced in the run game,” Cline told the Draft Wire. “Becoming a better pass rusher is something that I’m currently working on. I want to master the art of rushing the passer. I definitely feel like I currently make a bigger impact in the run game though.”

Currently, the Texans have Timmy Jernigan and Brandon Dunn as defensive tackles. Adding a talent such as Cline to the roster would reinforce their run-stopping presence, which will be in short supply with D.J. Reader now with the Cincinnati Bengals.