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At forty-seven, David Wood sold everything he owned and attempt to fulfill every golfers dream: For one year, he traveled the entire world (covering sixty thousand miles and every continent except Antarctica) by plane, boat, train, motorcycle, and rickshaw, to experiment with the game he loves in the most exotic locales, like the worlds highest, driest, hottest, coldest, and most remote golf courses, and lived to inform the tale. On 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 from 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 performed every chance he got.
