A fearless Fife fundraiser is training for a once-in-a-lifetime trip that will see him swap the manicured greens of St Andrews for a gruelling six-month bike ride over the scorched roads of Africa.
At the end of February Jack White (27) packed up his desk at the R&A, leaving his job as staging manager for The Open.
He is now making final preparations for a 8,700-mile journey that will take him through 12 countries, starting in Cairo and finishing in Cape Town.
His participation in the challenge will lead him through deserts, tropical forest and savannah landscapes.
It is a journey he has dreamed of since first setting foot in Africa during a pre-university gap year in 2003 when he worked in Botswana.
He fell in love with Africa and returned to Botswana each summer to work for a safari company.
Despite the enormity of the challenge facing him, he will lack no motivation to keep the wheels turning.
He has pledged to friends, colleagues and family to donate all his sponsorship money to the charity Farm Africa.
He said: “While it was a difficult decision to leave my job and life in the UK, the choice of charitable recipient for my efforts was not.”
The charity is tackling hunger in eastern Africa by providing smallholder farmers with the skills and knowledge they need to grow enough food.”
Jack has put himself through a punishing training schedule to get ready for the trip through desert and gruelling boulder-strewn roads.
He is regularly to be seen running and cycling around St Andrews and Fife and has also taken up box-fit classes at Kilrymont School.
When time permits he has also taken himself off to the Lake District for some serious mountain biking and fitness work.
Anyone wishing to sponsor Jack can make a donation via uk.virginmoneygiving.com/jackcyclesafrica.
You can also follow his progress at jackcyclesafrica.com and his Twitter page @CairoToCape.