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SentryWorld

The course Robert Trent Jones Jr. called his Mona Lisa — and the most famous flower bed in golf.

Stevens Point, WI · Par 72 · Est. 1982 · Robert Trent Jones Jr.

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The Story

SentryWorld exists because an insurance company decided its hometown deserved something extraordinary. In 1981, Sentry Insurance broke ground on a rocky, wooded swampland beside its Stevens Point headquarters, and Robert Trent Jones Jr. transformed it into a championship parkland course in roughly eighteen months — half the time such a build usually took. When it opened in 1982, it was Wisconsin's first true destination golf course, drawing players to a quiet central-Wisconsin town decades before Whistling Straits and Sand Valley made the state a pilgrimage. Jones told the press at the opening, 'I like to refer to this as my Mona Lisa.'

Then there is the 16th. The par-3 'Flower Hole' — a mid-iron over a sea of tens of thousands of blooms in every shade of pink and red — became one of the most photographed holes in America. Every spring a crew hand-plants more than 30,000 flowers around the green over two or three days, arriving by the semi-truckload, so the hole is literally reborn each season.

Rather than coast on nostalgia, Sentry closed the course in 2013 for a two-year renovation led by Jones's firm and Wisconsin-born architect Jay Blasi, rebuilding it to modern championship standards. The reborn SentryWorld reopened in 2015 with bigger ambitions — and the USGA answered.

The course had hosted the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links back in 1986 and welcomed the U.S. Girls' Junior in 2019, but its defining week came in 2023, when the U.S. Senior Open arrived and 65-year-old Bernhard Langer authored history: the oldest champion in the event's history, and a record-breaking 46th PGA Tour Champions title that moved him past Hale Irwin. The USGA has since committed to returning — proof that Jones's Mona Lisa is still being painted.

Championship Ground

U.S. Senior Open	2023	Bernhard Langer's record-setting week made SentryWorld a major-championship venue.
U.S. Girls' Junior	2019	The Flower Hole's blooms were arranged to spell out 'USGA' for the week.
U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links	1986	SentryWorld's first USGA championship, just four years after opening.

The Champions

Bernhard Langer

U.S. Senior Open · 2023

At 65, the two-time Masters champion became the oldest U.S. Senior Open winner in history — by roughly eight years. The victory was also his 46th on PGA Tour Champions, breaking Hale Irwin's all-time record on SentryWorld's fairways.

Lei Ye

U.S. Girls' Junior · 2019

The Stanford-bound teenager became the first player from China to win the U.S. Girls' Junior, holing a three-foot par putt on the 36th hole of the final to edge Jillian Bourdage, 1 up. The win earned her invitations to the U.S. Women's Open and the Augusta National Women's Amateur.

Course Lore

More than 30,000 flowers are hand-planted around the par-3 16th — the famous 'Flower Hole' — every single spring, delivered by multiple semi-trucks and planted by a crew of about fifteen in two to three days.

Robert Trent Jones Jr. called SentryWorld 'my Mona Lisa' at its 1982 unveiling.

The course was carved from rocky swampland beside Sentry Insurance's headquarters in about eighteen months — roughly half the typical construction time of its era.

It is widely credited as Wisconsin's first destination golf course, predating Whistling Straits by 16 years.

For the 2019 U.S. Girls' Junior, the Flower Hole's blooms were planted to spell out 'USGA.'

Bernhard Langer's 2023 U.S. Senior Open win here made him, at 65, the championship's oldest winner ever — and the USGA has already awarded SentryWorld the 2028 U.S. Senior Women's Open and the 2034 U.S. Senior Open.