ADVENTURE BLOG

For those of you who think of golf as a good walk spoiled (thank you, Mark Twain), there is another way — to tackle the world’s longest golf course, newly opened in the Australian outback, you’ll be needing a car.

Five years in the making, the Nullarbor Links run 848 miles and 302 yards from Ceduna in South Australia to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. The names of the 18 holes are poetic enough — Silver Lake, Eagles Nest, Oyster Beds — but the thinking behind Nullarbor is solidly pragmatic, arising from a need to capture custom from people driving along the notoriously long — and remote — Eyre Highway. With the course taking an estimated four days to complete, it’s proving a shrewd bet.

But it’s not only the distance between holes that creates Nullarbor’s novelty — one of the holes is in the middle of a sheep farm, and Wombat Hole (number four) is home to the largest population of southern hairy-nosed wombats in Australia. An added complication is that dingos have started stealing people’s balls. Oh, and watch out for kangaroos.

For more information visit nullarborlinks.com.

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