Golf courses usually mean green grass, awesome scenery and wide open space. But the number of golfers are increasing all over the world. What if a place does not have all the qualifications that most people attribute to a golf course? For some golf course designers, their answer is to build them anyway.
Take Greenland for example. Since 1997, the World Ice Golf Championship have the competitors play in frozen seascapes, icebergs and glaciers. My advice for golfers teeing off there? Dress warmly, use golf ball that is not white, and be prepared to walk as no golf carts are available.
Too cold? Prefer a warmer climate? Then Merapi Golf Course is probably your type of golf course. Situated in Indonesia, near Mount Merapi (an active volcano). As if that is not bad enough, the course is designed to make it challenging for golfers with its many uphill and downhill slopes. Unfortunately, golfers eager to try it out might have to delay their trip because Mount Merapi erupted October last year and some parts of the golf courses was badly affected.
If these two golf courses is still not challenging enough for you, than maybe Camp Bonifas Golf Course is your type. ESPN reporter Shelley Smith referred to it as the “most dangerous golf course in the world.” It is one-hole, par 3 course but it is surrounded by heavily armed Korean border and minefields.
Much rather a golf course that will let you play and play? Then Nullarbor Links Course is the place you have been looking for. Located from Western Australia to South Australia, the 1,365 kilometers course (about 848 miles) is dubbed the World's Longest Golf Course. Once you complete the whole course (and have your score card stamped at every hole) you will be awarded a certificate.
Besides receiving the certificate to mark your achievement, you also have a gallery consisting of kangaroos as an audience, a chance of watching migrating whales as you play, having people land-sail across the huge salt flat, or even aborigines doing a dance on the green as they play golf. Whatever catch your attention, please be watchful of your surroundings – within the golf course are areas where poisonous snakes (such as Mr. Brown Snakes) called home.
The crows are known to fly away with golf balls that they find. No one knows what the birds do with the golf balls as the balls disappear once the birds take off with it. The bright side of having a crow steal your ball is you have an interesting tale and no penalty strokes for it.
This golf course is so spectacular that Travel Channel posted a video on youtube on Nov. 1, 2010 (embed here for your viewing pleasure).
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