A 2,011km Golf Odyssey Across Mongolia
“I first teed off on June 29, 2017, in Khüiten Peak, the highest and most western point in Mongolia. We had a five-hour trek to the top of this glacier, and it just started chucking it down with sleet and snow. Up there we found a shrine from where I hit the first shot. That was the last time we saw the sun for four days…"
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Written by Adam Rolston
Photography by Andrew King
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