When and where will the world s highest golf course be played on?
Their fairways flirt with the clouds and their greens lay covered in snow and ice for much of the year. What the world’s highest golf courses lack in oxygen, they make up for in, well, altitude. So where is the highest golf course in the world? Interestingly, the past champion no longer exists. Swallowed up in clouds and dense vegetation at 14,335 feet above sea level, the Tuctu Golf Club in Peru has now been abandoned. At its nose-bleeding altitude, a sign at the club should have read (no joke): Acclimatized Golfers Only. Robin Seiger and Neil Laughton, golf philanthropists and adventurists, are winding up a journey that saw them play “The Awesome Eight” (the highest, lowest, toughest, most northerly, most southerly, hottest, coldest, and greatest courses in the world). Apparently, all their research led them to Tuctu, Peru when choosing “the highest.” But, as Seiger explained, Tuctu was not in playing shape. “No one seemed to have any details of Tuctu. We eventually made contact with
CALGARY, ALBERTA (Jan. 8, 2003) – Their fairways flirt with the clouds and their greens lay covered in snow and ice for much of the year. What the world’s highest golf courses lack in oxygen, they make up for in, well, altitude. So where is the highest golf course in the world? Interestingly, the past champion no longer exists. Swallowed up in clouds and dense vegetation at 14,335 feet above sea level, the Tuctu Golf Club in Peru has now been abandoned. At its nose-bleeding altitude, a sign at the club should have read (no joke): Acclimatized Golfers Only. Robin Seiger and Neil Laughton, golf philanthropists and adventurists, are winding up a journey that saw them play “The Awesome Eight” (the highest, lowest, toughest, most northerly, most southerly, hottest, coldest, and greatest courses in the world). Apparently, all their research led them to Tuctu, Peru when choosing “the highest.” But, as Seiger explained, Tuctu was not in playing shape. “No one seemed to have any details of Tuct
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