Short description
A noted columnist for Grand Tour magazine humorously chronicles a year spent circumnavigating the globe while seeking extreme golf locales in strange lands. His journey covered 60,000 miles and every continent except Antarctica. Unabridged. 10 CDs.
Long description
At forty-seven, David Wood sold everything he owned and set out to fulfill every golfera (TM)s dream: For one year, he traveled the world (covering sixty thousand miles and every continent except Antarctica) by plane, boat, train, motorcycle, and rickshaw, to play the game he loves in the most exotic locales, including the worlda (TM)s highest, driest, hottest, coldest, and most remote golf courses, and lived to tell the tale.
Along the way, he met a bevy of fascinating characters, including surly cabbies, taxi drivers with a death wish, welcoming golf-course managers, threatening kangaroos, and golf pros out for a quick game. David faced dire situations, such as bouts of food poisoning in India and Egypt, altitude sickness in Argentina, getting booted out of the Ukraine by armed guards, and muddling about with limited language skills. But through it all he maintained a sense of humor and, of course, his passion for golf, which he played every chance he got.