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There’s only one tee box at the Elfego Baca Shootout, and it’s perched 2,550 feet above the hole and nearly three miles away.

After a kidney-busting trek aboard 4-wheel drive vehicles to the top of Socorro Peak, golfers have been hacking and whacking every year since 1960 at New Mexico Tech’s extraordinary single-day event.

“I guess it’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing to go to the top of a mountain and play your way down,” said Miguel Griego, defending champion of the Socorro Open. “You’re never going to get another chance to hit your first shot 1,000 yards

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