37 MILLION Non-golfers interested in learning how to play.
SOURCE: NATIONAL GOLF FOUNDATION
SENTRYWORLD GOLF COURSE
STEVENS POINT, WIS.
THREE YEARS AGO, architect Robert Trent Jones Jr. and team totally remodeled SentryWorld, a layout he designed in 1982. They ripped up every hole, re-routed four of them, added two new ones. But one hole they hardly touched was its famous par 3 with 45,000 blooming flowers encircling the green (below). It was created at the insistence of John Joanis, then-president of Sentry Insurance, which owns the course. When SentryWorld ($125 with cart) won Golf Digest’s first Best New Public Course award in 1984, it was the seventh hole. Today it’s the 16th. In a sense, the Flower Hole gets redesigned every year. Using petunias, snapdragons, marigolds, geraniums and other annuals…
