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  Hole 1: par 4, hcp 9/10, yellow 267/239, red 223/200
  A blind drive, where a forecaddie is recommended. Keep to the left towards the clock. Try to avoid being charmed by the Schaffer Pond, which you must play over. The name derives from when the musician Janne Schaffer, at the inauguration of the course in 1989, managed to hit the water hazard with his first drive.
  Ring the bell when you pass so that any following party will know it’s clear. To the right of the green is a water hazard that will catch any less successful shots. The green is small and undulated. It’s quite easy to slip off into the vegetation.

  Hole 2: par 3, hcp 15/16, yellow 118/141, red 118/141
  When you have caught your breath from the unparalleled view of Torneträsk, you will have a par-3 hole in front of you, but with a tough difference in height. The water hazard on the right side down by the green and ditches to the left makes this hole a little more complicated than indicated by the hcp. With some luck the might be some snow left on the left side of the mountain and will offer a slightly different golf experience for balls that find their way there. If you find the ball on the white

  So, you call yourself a golfer, huh? Ever bounced a ball into the hole off an old mine boiler? Ever miss a shot and watch your neon-pink ball sink into the frigid Arctic Ocean like it’s one of Franklin’s ships? Ever line up a hole-in-one, only to have your ball snatched from the air by a wily raven? The hazards of these courses are no tame, little sand-traps, but are as untamed as the land they’re carved into. (Oh, we have sand-traps, too. They just make up entire courses.) So grab your golf clubs, and a considerable handful of cash for airfare, and check out the wildest golf courses Canada has to offer. You bring the beers—we’ll provide the bears.

  Dawson City Golf Course - Dawson City, Yukon

  The course: Tired of the same old trees and bush at your local links? How about teeing off among old mine boilers and buckets from dredges strewn across the greens? Mining brought droves of people to Dawson City, and the relics of that bygone age attract golfers to the Dawson City Golf Course. To reach the course from the city, you need to cross the Yukon River and you can reach it by taking the George Black Ferry or boating yourself to the ninth hole. (Or be as stylish as you want, r

  Magical light and mysterious graves

  It’s one hour past midnight and we’re playing golf. As Johnsen once more tries his best to deposit in the third hole, the floodlight of the midnight daystar is casting long shadows over the course, filling it with a warm light that is almost at its brightest. Suddenly, the green is no longer just green. It transforms into a landscape that looks appreciate a fairy tale.

  “It’s definitely magical. You just have to be here, words can’t describe it”, says Jens Kristian Hansen, a Norwegian veteran golfer. But he tries anyway: “Forget mindfulness. When you golf in the midnight daystar, you get an intense feeling of being present in the moment.”

  In light of the magical atmosphere, it seems to be no coincidence that there are hidden old burial mounds on this northern course, right next to hole number four. “So if you feel a sudden gust of wind, it can be the ghost of an mature Norwegian Viking king”, Hansen jokes.

  Stay up all night

  In the northern hemisphere during the summer months, the earth’s tilt towards the sun is responsible for the midnight light. Conversely, the winter is lengthy and dark, though lit by a special light show of its own: the northern lights. Th

  
  

  Longyearbyen — the world’s northernmost disc golf course

  Playing disc golf at the world’s northernmost course in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, has lots of advantages. If you catch just the right conditions in the winter, you could strap on a headlamp and play under the Northern Lights. During some summer months, the 24-hour sunlight lets you get a rotund in at literally any second. No matter what, you’re surrounded by a dramatic landscape of rock, mountains, snow, and ice.

  Another benefit is that your chance of being attacked by an apex predator is extremely low.

  “There’s always a risk of polar bears, but you don’t own to bring your rifle,” explained Lene Dyngeland, a resident of Longyearbyen for the past six years. “The course is just outside the schoolyard, so a polar bear would have to go through the whole center of town or come from the glacier behind us, which is not really logical.”

  Dyngeland is the manager of Aktiv i friluft in Longyearbyen, which at latitude 78˚ North is one of the most northern eternal human settlements in the society. Her job is to facilitate outdoor recreation opportunities for the town’s over 2,