Golfing Across Mongolia

"On July 10, 2004 Andre Tolme became the first person to golf across Mongolia." And it's documented! Online. With Progress Reports, and photos, and, most excrutiating of all, scorecard. (Hole #1 had a par of 711. It required 833 shots, 8 days and 40 lost balls.)

Here's a particularly revealing report of Andre's progress:

In the Rough

After nearly 1000 km of golfing across Mongolia's steppe, I've encountered an unconquerable challenge - a sea of knee-high vegetation determined to halt my golfing progress. The unusually high amount of precipitation that brought about these conditions was unforeseeable but the current reality is that with every swing, I have had to embark on a search for the golf ball akin to searching for the Holy Grail. My recent reconnaissance mission to the west revealed a unified resistance of shoulder to shoulder weeds stretching as far as I could see. Small guerrilla forces have stymied superpower militaries many times in history and though the Golf Mongolia expedition possesses an unending supply of determination and will, lessons of the past need to be heeded. Thus, this mission to become the first person ever to golf across Mongolia will be restructured."

Sound like fun to you?