On the southern portion of Baffin Island, there is a group of men that have built a golf course on the tundra. The course is not a well groomed and artistically landscaped piece of golfery. It is basically a stretch of tundra, sand and rock that has 9 "greens" distibuted about here and there. The greens are reminants of carpet laid out across a flat sandy and mossy patch of tundra. The fairways are what ever God has created and laid out before us. It looks not like a golf course but it is the best golfing available in the eastern arctic.
The crooked hole is a notorious hole that lies on a slope of about 25 degrees. The green (carpet) will not allow the ball to stop within 8 feet of the hole. No matter how slowly the hole is approached with the most skillful of putts, the ball will roll down the hill if it doesn't sink in the hole. So aptly named,The Crooked Hole. Many times I have missed a 10 foot putt 1/4 of an inch to the left of the hole only to watch the ball "orbit" around the hole then roll back down the hill. I call that shot "Apollo 13".
The crooked hole is the hardest hole to putt but Nunavut's make shift golf course has other holes that are much harder to approach.
2 comments:
Nice descriptions.
I like to be in such snowy places, still waiting for a chance to come.
Whenever I have a long holiday, I will try to visit a hill station of some sort of high altitude place where temperature is low.
The concept of the Tundra Golf is really cool. I wish you had some pics up for me to see. I would definitely travel there to try something so completely different.
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