Sand Valley, Wisconsin

The first thing that surprises visitors about Sand Valley is the ground underfoot. Central Wisconsin does not feature in most golfers' mental geography, and the expectation on the drive through Nekoosa is farmland, maybe pine forest, possibly nothing at all. What appears instead is sand. Miles of it, deposited by glaciers that retreated roughly 10,000 years ago, covered in sparse vegetation and shaped into ridges and valleys that look, from certain angles, remarkably like the linksland of the British Isles....