Four extreme golf events that roam off the green and into the grit

Frankly, traditional golf tournaments leave us thirsty for a little adrenaline. Something about puce pants and tweezered lawns. We'd much rather try our hand at a mad scramble in the Gobi, or tackle the Amazon Basin Invitational. Who needs groomed sand? We want quicksand! Give us the clean extreme—where the out-of-bounds is patrolled by ornery moose and the putting surfaces are sometimes igloo-white. In fact, we'll take any of the following. —TOBY SMITH