The golf course on the frozen sea ice in front of Uummannaq, North Greenland
 

"It was only on the flight from Copenhagen when I read the page on "Arctic survival" in the flight safety brochure that I realised what an adventure I had started. The ensuing week was unforgettable, unlike my golf! Three things in particular stand out in the memory. The incredible friendliness of all the people who welcomed us, supported us and looked after us with their own special brand of Greenlandic hospitality. Secondly, many of us were surprised how delicious the food was and how well we were fed throughout our stay with the many kinds of natural seafood and shellfish. And lastly, the awesome landscape; you could spend hours just looking at it and wondering at the power of nature and of God. Somehow coming in almost last didn't seem to matter that much!"
 

Snowscooters transported the golf players to the course. . .
 

. . . while dog sledges were used for excursions in the Uummannaq area
 

The golf players took part in a service in the church in Uummannaq
 

Peter Masters of England was the winner of the first world championship in ice golf. "It's really been great fun to play amongst the ice fields and outcrops, and it was a fantastic experience to be amongst such a different landscape and culture to my own. I look forward enormously to coming back again next year"
 

"While I am used to and for the most part prefer travelling on my own, a remarkable sense of family developed during this adventure. And the landscape was fantastic! I had not realized I could be so overwhelmed by an almost monochromatic horizon".
Bill Starrett, California
 

The winner of the first World Ice Golf Championship 1999
Sunday, 28th March 1999: With a score of 141 Peter Masters from England won the first world championship title in ice golf.
 

"I'm really surprised but I played up to my best today without many stupid mistakes, says Peter Masters. - It has been great fun to play among icebergs on a surface of ice and snow. The course wasn't as difficult as I imagined, it was the greens or the "whites" that gave me the most trouble.
 
It is a fascinating experience to be here and to be so close to a landscape and a culture that are so different from mine. When you look out of the window you see dogsledges passing on the frozen fiord. The weather today has been absolutely beautiful with sunshine and blue sky and I was very impressed by the amount of people from Uummannaq who followed the golfers with great enthusiasm. I would like to come back to defend my world championship."