Duncan Lennard - 112 Miles to the Pin: Extreme Golf Around the World

Thanks to Xtreme golfers Bob Babbitt and Tom Huddle.

• Select a putter, wedge and 7-iron. Its hard to control anything longer on the move.
• Get a small bag. You play early, almost in the dark for the first hole or two, so the grass is dewy and the grips get wet.
• Warm up. If youre not going to do that, take the first two or three holes easy.
• Slow down on the greens. In your final score a stroke represents a minute, so take your time and keep your score down. The biggest mistake is rushing your putts; you end up hockeypucking it around and you dont want to do that.
• Forget the practice swing. Just hit the ball. Itll take time to get used to that, but this will change you mentally for your normal golf.

Scott Base golf club has fifteen rules for those heading out on to the ice:

1. 12-inch clean and place.
2. One club-lengths drop from petrified seal droppings.
3. Melt pools are considered water hazards. Drop clear with a one-shot penalty.
4. Balls lost down seal or fish holes are out-of-bounds.
5. Interference with your ball by skua replace ball, no penalty. But if it flies off with it, one-shot penalty.
6. Cover divots if over one mukluk (snowshoe) deep.
7. The ball will be considered holed if within one body length from the ball heel to ball, head to pin.
8. Pressure ridges and cracks are out of bounds.
9. Orcas, penguins and seals have right of way.
10. Birdies can be claimed if you hit a skua.
11. If you are caught cheating, you must shout in the clubhouse, or at the completion of your game. Everyone would then know the shouting person had cheated.
12. You are not permitted to handle, remove, clean or replace other players balls. However, you may kiss them prior to the game if you so desire.
13. The use of artificial stimulants during play, while not compulsory, is strongly recommended.
14. A knowledge of the rules of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews is permitted; however, anyone caught applying them will be disqualified.
15. You must enjoy yourself completely.

This invention relates to golf and other balls of the kind made up on a core and has for its object to manufacture such balls with a core of a resilient animal substance which at present is more or less a waste product of the slaughterhouse; hence the cores are very low in first cost, and although very cheap to produce the balls possess all the requisite resiliency.

According to this invention I make the core of the ball from a piece of the pizzle of a bull or bullock, or where this is not sufficiently large in cross section, I use two or more of such pieces and unite them together by pressure, by an adhesive and ordinary knitting or darning wool, or by any other suitable means.

In preparing the pizzle for ball cores, I proceed as follows: I first entirely remove every particle of skin leaving only the muscular and other fibers and tissue. I then hang the skinless organ to dry in a cool place until all the moisture has exuded or evaporated therefrom. Under ordinary atmospheric conditions in this country this would take about one month if the organ be suspended in a barn or shed so that the air can obtain free access to every part of it. When the moisture-free condition has been reached, which is ascertained by the feel and appearance of the dryness, the pieces desired for the ball cores may be cut off and worked to shape with suitable tools.

The ball is made up on this resilient animal substance core and ordinary knitting or darning wool and is finished in the ordinary way.