{"id":674,"date":"2015-12-17T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2015-12-17T21:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:00:16","slug":"golf-trip-oz-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Golf Trip – Oz Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

I missed my annual golf outing to North Carolina this spring since I moved to Australia.\u00a0 I decided to try and replicate it here in Australia.\u00a0 Luckily, one of my basketball teammates was game for the extravaganza.\u00a0 I quickly found a serious difference here in Australia:<\/p>\n

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Snakes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, searching for your ball in the rough had the added adventure of being a death-defying task (all snakes in Victoria are venomous).\u00a0 Luckily, we only saw one snake, a brown snake – but it was enormous and terrifying to think about even from a distance.\u00a0 I implemented a “snake stomp” whenever I was in the rough – making as much noise as possible – as most snakes in Victoria will not attack unless surprised.\u00a0 The golf carts had notes on what to do if bitten.\u00a0 First piece of advice – stay calm.\u00a0 Yeah right.<\/p>\n

Another big difference – flies.\u00a0 Australia has a lot of flies.\u00a0 Flies make concentrating on putts and other shots extra challenging.\u00a0 No one ever tells you about flies in Australia.<\/p>\n

The courses we played (The Dunes<\/a>, RACV Cape Schank<\/a>, Moonah Links<\/a>, St Andrews Beach<\/a>) are all very highly rated in Australia and were fun and challenging courses.\u00a0 It is pretty much peak season at these courses and following a trend I’ve noticed about Australia – they weren’t very crowded.\u00a0 It was blissful.\u00a0 There were great ocean views:<\/p>\n

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We even saw a few Kangaroos!<\/p>\n

All of this was just about an hour south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula.\u00a0 We stayed in a nice townhouse across the street from the beach.<\/p>\n

A tradition on the golf trip to Pinehurst, North Carolina is the drinking of 40s of King Cobra Malt Liquor – 2 per night.\u00a0 That costs about $4\/person.\u00a0 Sadly, Australia hasn’t really embraced the wonderfulness that is malt liquor in a ginormous bottle.\u00a0 Due to the metric system, I had to convert ounces into milliliters.\u00a0 So, we went with 3 750ml Coopers Sparkling Ales .\u00a0 Unfortunately, as you may have heard, beer is expensive here – and it cost $18\/person.\u00a0 But, they still make good art at the end of the trip!<\/p>\n

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I missed my annual golf outing to North Carolina this spring since I moved to Australia.\u00a0 I decided to try and replicate it here in Australia.\u00a0 Luckily, one of my basketball teammates was game for the extravaganza.\u00a0 I quickly found a serious difference here in Australia: So, searching for your ball in the rough had … Continue reading Golf Trip – Oz Style<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}