Do you know of any cross-country golfing achievements? Playing a "golf course" across open country from A to B rather than playing a course. Nigel Preston
Editor: I read one or two reports of golfing achievements as you mention - In 1896 Freddie Tate, then a subeltern in the Blackwatch drove a ball from the rookerie, the highest building on Edinburgh Castle, in a match against a brother officer, to the hole out in the fountain in Princes Street Gardens 350 ft below and about 300 yards distant.
Long drives have been made from mountain peaks across the gorge at Victoria Falls, from the Pyramids, from high buildings in New York and from many other similar places. I recall that Tony Jacklyn attempted to drive a ball from the roof of the Savoy across the Thames.
The best cross country match that I know of is an annual match played between Royal Troon and Prestwick Golf Club which involves playing the first ten holes at Troon followed by the last nine at Prestwick followed by a long and fairly liquid lunch with the game then resuming for the front nine and the back eight at Royal Troon.
All of this can be played without going on any public road. I know that at a number of clubs, cross country matches are played where one may tee off from the first and hole out at the seventh or eighth depending on the lie of the land.
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