In a final snub to preconceived ideas about golf, eight students from Lille embarked two months ago on a “Golfing World Tour,” with their goal being to use this sport to interact with locals. At each stop of their journey, the adventurers create a new playground and invite the people they meet to have fun alongside them.
Their project, also called “Let’s Make the Earth Our Largest Golf Course,” began at the start of the summer on the American continent with a first trip that took them, without a predetermined itinerary, through Canada and the United States. The warm reception they received at each stage and the success of their initiative encouraged them to set out in the conquest of a new continent: Asia.
Having already arrived in Moscow, one of them, Alexandre Demeyere, recounts, “It’s truly a wonderful adventure. Here, unlike our experiences in Toronto or Central Park, people watch us with great curiosity, which doesn’t stop them from quickly getting into the game. We even heard someone say that they only see this in movies! Soon we will be at the edge of Lake Baikal; it’s going to be magnificent, we’re really excited!” In just a few days, the eight “Golf Trotters” will board the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway to reach Mongolia and then China.
