The Next Great Frontier for Golf: Mongolia

In case you lose sleep at night wondering things like, "Can one play golf in Mongolia," the answer is a resounding yes. (Warning: "Mongolian rap song" included in background of this clip includes non-Mongolian English profanities.)

The country seems ripe for golf, being mostly flat grasslands, few water hazards, and only one large sandtrap called the Gobi desert to avoid. (And if you can't avoid a thousand mile-wide bunker, you're beyond any golf pro's help.)

These guys are clearly amateurs in the sport of Mongolian golf, though, compared to Andre Tolme, who in 2004 walked 1,234 miles across the country in the process of literally golfing his way across the length of the country. Tolme lost 509 balls on the way to shooting 12,170 strokes. In case you wondered, Mongolia is a 2,322,000 yard hole that Tolme estimates to be a par 11,880.