Par 11,880. Yes, Andre Tolme golfed across Mongolia. Because it was there. And because it’s mostly flat, treeless, and uninhabited. It’s windy, though, pretty much all the time — but you can’t have everything. Shooting his way across the steppe with the help of a local caddie, a GPS receiver, and a compass, the nomadic Berkeley engineer traversed a country twice the size of Texas in ninety days. Of course, due to weather conditions, those ninety days were spread out over several years. Some days he walked a dozen miles or more. By the time he completed his quest in July 2004 — having survived plague-flea-infested marmots and four species of poisonous snake — Tolme had racked up 12,170 shots, lost 509 balls, and walked 1,234 miles. Using dung for tees, he played a respectable game: The 35-mile third hole took him only 344 shots, a shocking 350 under par. He tells the whole story in his book I Golfed Across Mongolia. Don’t you dare call this dude a duffer.
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