In the film, the captain of an adventure racing team befriends a wounded stray dog named Arthur, who accompanies the team on a grueling 435-mile (700-km) endurance race through the Dominican Republic.
The actual suffering of a real Adventure Race World Championship is not shown in a Hollywood movie, of course. But there are bits of reality in the film.
I was laughing out loud every 2nd page. It’s been compared with Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods.
I downloaded because I was in Scotland, en route to St. Andrews.
Tom Coyne is the editor of quarterly, The Golfer’s Journal.
In 2010 he published A Course Called Ireland, where he WALKED around the perimeter of the Republic and Northern Ireland, without the use of any transportation, playing the courses en route: 36 courses, 648 holes, over 2,000,000 yards.
Reluctantly — urged by his drunken best friend — he wroteA Course Called Scotland, 111 courses in the home of golf.
Tom chose mostly LINKS courses, hoping to learn the secret of golf in Scotland.
Courses in Scotland were originally set-up on the worst coastal land — no good for farming. Golfers shared the space with sheep and rabbits that kept the foliage down.
He did include some links courses in England and Wales, as well.
Rick McCharles 
