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Four extreme golf events that roam off the green and into the grit

Frankly, traditional golf tournaments leave us thirsty for a little adrenaline. Something about puce pants and tweezered lawns. We'd much rather try our hand at a mad scramble in the Gobi, or tackle the Amazon Basin Invitational. Who needs groomed sand? We want quicksand! Give us the clean extreme—where the out-of-bounds is patrolled by ornery moose and the putting surfaces are sometimes igloo-white. In fact, we'll take any of the following. —TOBY SMITH

EVENT VENUE COURSE
QUIRKS		 ADVICE PAYOFF PRACTICALITIES
ELFEGO BACA SHOOT, ONE HOLE, PAR 50. Tee: 7,243-foot M Mountain, near Socorro, NM. Pin: Two and a half miles away, 3,000 feet below summit. Scree fields, diamondbacks, scorpions, paramedics. Dump "Fore!" Try, "Look out for the fuckin' boulder!" Ask for locker-room attendant in abandoned mineshaft. Frosty Coronas, green-chili cheeseburgers at Owl Bar in nearby San Antonio, New Mexico. Held each June
505-835-5725.
U.X. OPEN, 10 HOLES, PAR 33. Mountain Creek Resort ski slope, Vernon, New Jersey. Ravines, moraines, morons, double-black-diamond doglegs, wild turkeys, DC-3-size mosquitoes. Call caddies "Sherpas." Carry pitons in Wilson bag. Oxygen tank can help lower handicap. Winner receives coveted red velour blazer with zebra stripes. Held each June
973-827-2000
www.uxopen.com.
BERING SEA ICE GOLF CLASSIC, SIX HOLES, PAR 41. Norton Sound, Nome, Alaska—held in conjunction with end of Iditarod. Shifting ice floes, shifty arctic wolves, dogsledders, barking seals, bush pilots. Practice putting into king crab holes. Don't use polar bear as yard marker. Show up in Nike mukluks. Duck Farts at Breakers Bar. (One jigger each of Kahlua, Baileys Irish Cream, and Crown Royal. Stir. Beware.) Held each March
907-443-6624.
WORLD ICE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP, 36 HOLES, PAR 144. High-Arctic tundra a chip shot south of the North Pole in sunny Uummannaq, Greenland. Slippery glaciers, slaphappy harpoonists, musk ox-gnawed flagsticks, Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Blitzen, etc. Pull 180s with cart inside crevasse. Teach walrus how to use a mashie. Mattak sandwiches: jaw-breaking, rubber—tasting whale blubber, chock-full of vitamins. Held each April
011-45-33-69-32-00
www.greenland-guide.gl.

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