Behind the ‘Flower Hole’ at SentryWorld for the U.S. Senior Open

This week, some 50,000 visitors are expected at SentryWorld in Stevens Point, for the U.S. Senior Open.

The event features golfers, like Wisconsin’s Steve Stricker; the best in the world, over the age of 50. It’s an event the entire region is embracing. We traveled to the nearby village of Coloma, where we met Bob Heath. He has lived in the area for 50 of his 95 years. He says they “started from nothing. Everybody told me it was crazy. They said you can’t do that in this sand.”

He didn’t listen and went on to build this field on his dreams. 160 acres of sod, grown in central Wisconsin sand, bent grass, Kentucky blue grass. Bob sells sod to big-name sports teams such as the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers. He says they missed selling sod to the Chicago Cubs this spring “because we had a foot of snow when they wanted to do it.”

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