If you live in Mapleton and want to hit real golf shots in the middle of January, you have options close to home — and one of them is seven minutes away with no freeway involved. Pure Golf Players Club sits just across town in Springville. No merging onto I-15, no crawling through Provo, no waiting for a tee time. Straight across town, park, and start swinging. Here is what you get when you arrive, and why Mapleton golfers keep making the short drive.
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What Mapleton Golfers Are Missing
Mapleton is a golf town without a golf season. The course closes, the range gets cold and dark by late afternoon, and for roughly five months of the year there is nowhere close by to make a full swing and see where the ball actually went. Most golfers respond by putting the clubs away until spring, then spending April rebuilding whatever they lost over the winter.
That gap is the whole reason indoor golf exists. The question is not whether to play indoors — it is whether the place you play indoors gives you real data, real space, and real instruction, or just a screen and a net. Those are very different things, and they are priced more similarly than you would expect.
The 7-Minute Drive From Mapleton
This is the part that surprises people. Mapleton and Springville share a border, so getting to Pure Golf does not involve the freeway at all. It is a straight shot across town. Most Mapleton golfers are on a TrackMan in under ten minutes from the moment they leave the house.
Compare that to the alternative. Driving north to a facility in Provo or Orem means I-15, traffic that is unpredictable between four and six, and fifteen to twenty-five minutes each way depending on the hour. Over a winter of weekly sessions, that difference adds up to hours sitting in a car. Being genuinely close is not a small advantage — it is the thing that decides whether you actually go.
What the Seven Minutes Actually Buys You
TrackMan, Not Cameras
Pure Golf runs TrackMan, the same radar-based launch monitor used on tour and in club fitting. It measures what the ball and club actually do rather than estimating from camera images. If you are working on a swing change, the difference between measured and estimated numbers is the difference between practice that compounds and practice that guesses.
Private, Full-Size Bays
Every bay is enclosed and full size, so you can take a complete swing with a driver without clipping a wall or an audience. It is your room for the hour. That matters more than it sounds when you are trying to work on something and would rather not perform for a lobby.
Open 24/7/365
The doors are open every hour of every day. Before work, after the kids are asleep, or at eleven on a Tuesday night — the bay does not care. For anyone whose schedule does not line up with normal business hours, this is usually the deciding factor.
PGA-Certified Instruction On-Site
Both instructors at Pure Golf are PGA certified, and they teach in the same bays you practice in, using the same TrackMan numbers. Adult lessons run 90 minutes at $100, and youth lessons run 60 minutes at $70. You are not driving somewhere else for coaching and then somewhere else again to practice what you were told.
Pay for the Bay, Not Per Person
An hour is $35 for the bay, not per golfer. Bring a friend or three and the cost per person drops accordingly. If you expect to come back through the winter, punch passes bring the hourly rate down — five hours for $150, ten for $250, or twenty for $425, which works out to $21.25 an hour.
Who From Mapleton Plays at Pure Golf?
A fair number of Mapleton regulars are simply golfers who refuse to lose the winter. They book an hour once a week from November through March and arrive at address in April instead of starting over.
Others are parents with juniors. A 60-minute youth lesson followed by bay time is an easy weeknight when the drive is seven minutes rather than half an hour. There are also groups who treat it as a social night — four people, one bay, a course none of them would otherwise get to play, and a total cost lower than most evenings out.
One practical note before you come: Pure Golf does not rent clubs, so bring your own set. If you are getting a junior started, borrowed or hand-me-down clubs are completely fine for a first session.
How to Find Us From Mapleton
Head west across town into Springville. You do not need I-15 at any point. The whole trip is roughly seven minutes from most Mapleton neighbourhoods, and parking is directly outside the door — there is no complex to navigate once you arrive.
Coming from elsewhere in the south county? We have the same rundown for golfers driving from Spanish Fork and for golfers coming down from Provo.
The Honest Answer
If all you want is to hit a ball into a screen occasionally, you do not need to go anywhere in particular, and we would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. Where Pure Golf earns the seven-minute drive is when you care about the numbers being real, want space to swing properly, need the place to be open when you are free, or want coaching and practice in the same room.
For Mapleton golfers specifically, this is not about being the only screen in town. Mapleton has indoor golf — the city rec department even runs a winter league on a simulator, and teams get a couple of hours a week on it. What Mapleton does not have is a full-size room with two bays, a PGA-certified instructor you can actually book, and the option to just pay for an hour without signing up for a monthly membership first. That is the gap the seven-minute drive fills.
Ready to Play?
Book a private TrackMan bay at Pure Golf Players Club in Springville, seven minutes from Mapleton. Play whenever it suits you, or bring the hourly rate down with a punch pass.
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