World’s Longest Golf Course Holds First Tournament

Friday, October 23, 2009
(photo: Nullarbor Links)

If Crocodile Dundee had decided to take up golf, he probably would have created something like Nullarbor Plain. Touted as the world’s longest golf course, Nullarbor is currently staging its first tournament in Australia’s outback, which requires participants to trek across 848 miles of terrain featuring wombats and dingoes, some of whom love to steal misplayed balls. The holes are far apart and organizers estimate that it takes four days to complete the course. The 18-hole, 72-par course is the brainchild of some local businessmen who wanted to find a way to lure tourists into the southern interior of Australia.

 
“If you are a tourist from the UK or anywhere around the world, you go to Sydney and you see the Opera House, you also see the bridge. But you don’t see the Nullarbor Links, and this is the real part of Australia which people should come and see,” golfer Alf Caputo told the BBC News.
-noel Bronkerhoff
 
The World's Longest Golf Course (by Nick Bryant, BBC News)

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