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Golf fanatics will soon be able to become members of the world's longest course, on Australia's iconic Nullarbor Plain.
Nullarbor Links is an 18-hole golf course, spanning 1365km and crossing two states of the Australian outback.
Beginning at Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, holes, complete with tee, rugged outback fairway and a green, will be placed at various towns and one working sheep station along the Eyre Highway to Ceduna in South Australia.
Eight holes have already been constructed, with the other 10 to be completed by mid-2009.
Eyre Highway Operators Association secretary Alf Caputo said membership to the unique course would open in the coming weeks.
He said the idea was to slow down the 250,000 people who travelled the Eyre Highway each year, but the project was already fielding inquiries from people overseas who wanted to travel to the area just to play the course.
"I'm a pretty level-headed sort of bloke and I've been around for 100 years but I just can't believe how this thing has grabbed the attention of the whole world," Mr Caputo said. "It seems to grab people's imagination."
He said holiday packages for Japanese tourists to fly into Adelaide, play the course, and fly out from Perth were already being planned.
"The comments that we have from the tour operators is that it will be sold out all the time," Mr Caputo said.
"On this particular golf course you'll be able to have a look at everything that is Australia," he said.
Membership will be sold on the website, nullarborlinks.com
- AAP
