{"id":403897,"date":"2026-02-02T13:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403897\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T13:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:58:07","slug":"golf-caddy-attempts-to-carry-clubs-length-of-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/403897\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf caddy attempts to carry clubs length of New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite moving &#8220;a little slower&#8221; than the majority of hikers on the trail due to his extra luggage, the golf caddy now has fewer than 90 days remaining on his trek.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He spoke to the BBC from the town of Havelock &#8211; near the top of the South Island &#8211; and said the journey was &#8220;going by at a very rapid rate&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But that finish line is still quite a long way away, so it&#8217;s still a long, long endeavour,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Along the Te Araroa, Dougie said there were volunteers, called Trail Angels, who &#8220;open their homes, their gardens, their kitchens to people on the trail and basically let us all stay there&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been absolutely amazing and humbling. I&#8217;ve known how amazing the country of New Zealand, and its community, is, but it&#8217;s gone to another level being on this trail,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite moving &#8220;a little slower&#8221; than the majority of hikers on the trail due to his extra luggage,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-403897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}