20 September 2007: A hole in each one

Australia will soon have the world's longest golf course.

Plans to build the course received a welcome boost yesterday when the Australian government offered funding for the venture.

The 18-hole course will stretch along the Eyre Highway, which crosses treeless desert in the south of the continent. There will be one hole placed in each town along the way, and one at a remote sheep farm. In total the course will be 750 miles long, stretching from an inland mining town to the coast.

The golf idea was created to promote tourism in the remote-area and encourage people who drive along the highway to stop and see the local towns.