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...shirt and emerald wraparound shades, hums a Metallica tune as he climbs to a makeshift tee and swings his 3-iron. His ball sails across a steep slope before settling into a patch of daisies. "When I look at these mountains," he says, "I think of only one thing: golf course...
...weekend hackers who showed up last week for what its extreme-sports organizers call the "U.X. Open." The grand prize: an invitation to the finals in West Virginia later this year. But not everyone took the tournament seriously. Two of Leslie's buddies stuffed their worn golf bags full of ice cubes and Budweisers...
...Open founder Rick Ryan, who usually works on NBA marketing deals with such clients as IBM, first played mountain golf as a goof when he attended college in Vermont. Now he dreams of bringing it to the Tiger Woods generation--and incidentally bringing new summer business to America's 441 ski resorts. "We could," he says, "be creating a whole new game...
Well, not exactly. In Arizona, crazies already love "wasteland golf"--played entirely in the desert. Another variation, speed golf, requires players to cover a standard course as quickly as possible, by running between shots. One-club golf--a favorite Tiger Woods practice routine--mandates the use of a single club from tee to cup. Frisbee golf claims more than 16,000 players worldwide...
...seems every other surfer and skateboarder is into golf," says Will McCulloch, 25, a U.X. Open player and managing editor of Schwing!--a slick, year-old magazine that reaches an estimated 68,000 punkish players of both conventional and extreme golf. "The game isn't just for geeks or old, white men anymore," adds Adrian Young, 30, who plays drums for the rock band No Doubt and boasts an 8 handicap. The National Golf Foundation reports that 57% of all current players are younger than...