Get ready for the moment when you'll never complain about walking 18 holes again because in Australia, Nullarbor Links Golf Course opened, and it's long enough to wear out your pull cart's wheels. The golf course, that took five years to complete and will take you and your threesome four days to complete (in a car!), stretches 848 miles and like one of those beer tours you've all tried to complete at the local Old Chicago, Nullabor hands out a certificate with your scorecard that can be stamped at each hole. That way, Johnny Fulloflies can't go bragging about completing the par-71 without driving across two Australian states.
So where did the idea of an AstroTurf golf course, spread out across land that is hardly visited come from? Well, as anything in Australia seems to occur, over a couple of Fosters.
Dreamed up "over a couple of beers", it is hoped the links will attract tourists to the Eyre Highway, which traverses the desolate Nullarbor Plain.This really does remind me of how I started playing golf, in a small town in East Texas. I'd get in my car, drive long stretches until I saw the closest wombat hole, and tee it up. Wombats are great for the nerves.
Golfers will stop at one roadhouse, play a hole, then drive on to the next tee – 50 miles down the road in some cases. The par-71 course will take three or four days to complete with each player awarded a certificate at the end.
The holes themselves are in some rather strange locations - some lie beside a long, featureless highway, some are positioned near petrol stations and motels while others rest close to inhabited wombat holes.
The course officially opened October 22, and cost approximately 46 American dollars. All the details about the course can be found on their rather interesting website, that has already eclipsed a million hits.
