It’s amazing what feats people will go to test themselves. And golf seems to attract more than it’s fair share of such people. Take the story of David Bentley attempt to play every golf hole in the Kansas City metropolitan area in a calendar year. Not easy, take it from someone who flakes out after 36 holes in a weekend, 2,691 would certainly put me on my backside. “David Battey has a setup any avid golfer can appreciate. A mere 40 yards or so from the back door of his Fairway home, through a simple gate and a thin shroud of trees, sits the 11th green and 12th tee at The Kansas City Country Club. A member there since 1990, he has the luxury of grabbing his clubs and teeing up on an urge. But Battey had something else in mind last year. A few days past his 43rd birthday, buoyed by an even-par round at Painted Hills Golf Course in early March 2006, Battey set out on a quest to play every course in the Kansas City metropolitan area by the end of the calendar year. His journey would end up covering 2,691 golf holes — of many varieties — within his continually expanding definition of the metro area…” For more on this story click here…