New Book Chronicles an Incredible Journey Propelled by One Man’s Passion for Golf, Adventure, Knowledge and Desire to Experience Other Cultures Worldwide
St. Martin’s Press has agreed to purchase the worldwide rights to David Wood’s new book: Around the World in Eighty Rounds. The tentative release date is April 2008.
Over eleven months, with 60,000 miles logged, and eighty rounds of golf, Wood golfed in every continent except Antarctica en route from Ushuaia, Argentina to Tromso, Norway – the world’s southernmost and northernmost courses.
Wood (shown above on a 9-hole course in front of the Great Pyramids of Egypt) also played on some of the world’s most extreme golf courses: the highest course in La Paz, Bolivia, the driest course in Arica, Chile at the edge of the Atacama Desert, and the world’s hottest course in Alice Springs, Australia. His favorite golfing locals were China’s Spring City in Kunming, Royal Nepal in Katmandu, the Moscow Country Club in Russia, and Elephant Hills in Zimbabwe. He traveled and golfed in 26 countries including Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, India, Nepal, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Finland and Norway.
On his quest, Wood said, "I got lost, stranded, had bouts of food poisoning, altitude sickness, and was arrested and kicked out of the Ukraine at midnight while on a train journey to Russia. I got caught in the middle of a civil war in Nepal, trapped in violent uprisings by the peasants of Bolivia and accidentally met the notorious Carlos Menhem, the former President of Argentina after a round of golf in Buenos Aries. My life was even threatened while traveling in southern China. It wasn’t exactly a golf weekend at Myrtle Beach!"
A former stand-up comedian with several appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, Wood writes on golf and travel as well as public speaking. His hilarious and informative Adventure Keynote has become in-demand at golf and corporate functions.
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