Wild golf reimagines the ancient game as a contact sport

A 27-year-old Michigan native, Caramagno owns a production company, Wilderness Xtreme Sports Media, which he has used to film a number of wild golf outings. At first blush, the fledgling sport looks a bit like speed golf. But whereas speed golf tracks your score as a combination of shots-taken and time-elapsed, wild golf doesn’t bother tallying your strokes. How fast you play is all that matters. So competitors use three clubs—a driver, wedge and putter—to make their frenzied way around a three-hole course that can take any number of forms and whose location can be almost anywhere.

The first official wild golf outing was held on the overgrown grounds of a defunct golf course in Flint, Michigan, but Caramagno has also captured wild golf footage on a grassy patch outside the studios of a television station in downtown Detroit.

The founders of wild golf are still trying to finalize the rules. As part of their quest for clarity, they have scheduled a wild golf exhibition, a test-run of sorts, on Feb. 28. The precise location has yet to be determined and is weather-dependent; if it gets too cold or snowy, it might have to move from an outdoor venue in Detroit to an indoor venue outside the city. There are limits, it seems, to how wild wild golfers are willing to get.

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