A new competitor is gearing up to challenge Topgolf in Wichita: ‘We got next’

A mammoth, so to speak, competitor is gearing up to challenge Topgolf in Wichita.

Mammoth, a Topeka-area company with numerous subsidiaries — including a division that’s one of the largest artificial turf installers in the country — plans to open a new concept on part of the former All Star Adventures property on North Webb Road just north of Central.

The golf-focused Mammoth Clubhouse will be a first for the company, which has a larger sister concept in the works called Mammoth Fieldhouse. The Clubhouse concept is more of a pared-down version of the Fieldhouse concept.

Sources confirm the Wichita development is happening, though no one with Mammoth is commenting yet.

The company doesn’t have a Clubhouse website.

However, the Mammoth Fieldhouse site explains some of the features that the Clubhouse also will have.

There will be an elevated driving range that’s “More than bays and boxes,” it says.

Like Topgolf, the Clubhouse will have technology-enabled ball tracking and will offer golfers a covered area in which to play, though it’ll be an open-air environment.

The Clubhouse also will have a 27-hole Pure Putt course for “precision, performance, and pure fun.” It’ll be a competitor to the national PopStroke chain, which bills itself as “a mini golf oasis.”

Also like Topgolf, which entered the Wichita market in November 2022 near K-96 and Greenwich, Mammoth Clubhouse will offer food and drinks as well.

The new Clubhouse concept won’t have some of the other sports options that the Fieldhouse concept will offer, such as pickleball and batting cages.

Also unlike the Fieldhouse concept, sources say the Clubhouse doesn’t plan to ask for city incentives.

According to a January 2024 story in the Branson Tri Lakes News, the city of Branson is working with Mammoth on its Fieldhouse concept there.

It’s “a $41 million development project . . . which could receive up to $10 million in incentives depending on the performance of the development.”

Though not as large as a Fieldhouse, the Mammoth Clubhouse for Wichita still will be a sizable development — probably around the $6 million range. It will use only about 12 acres of the former All Star property.

There’s no deal yet for the remaining All Star acreage.

All Star Adventures closed in early December 2024.

Its sister business, All Star Sports on West 21st Street, remains open.

Though the Clubhouse doesn’t have its own website yet, Mammoth explains the drive behind its concepts on the Fieldhouse site.

It’s “the start of a recreation reawakening and marks the arrival of an entertaining new champion to the Competitive Social scene,” it says.

“We got next.”

This story was originally published May 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM.