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AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY,
playing golf with kangaroos
By Ronald
Brown
 Where to play ?
What to see ?
Where to stay ?
Informations
Sydney February 2003
Organizing the
Olympic Games is always a chance for the host nation to improve
its image. Australian did not miss the 2000 Olympic Games
to attract a lot of tourists to take the opportunity to discover
their country.
Although it
is mostly unknown from other Occidental countries, the Australian
continent, an island as large as the USA, hides a lot of natural
sights from desert and bush to seashores ; the coral reef
is the largest in the world and one of the most interesting
; Sydney is one of the most exciting city in the world and
Australian people like good living and good wines, and last
but not least, there are more than 1.700 golf courses all
around the country.
First of all,
in Australia always get in mind that it is a long distance
country. Flight time from Sydney to Brisbane is more than
one hour, two to Melbourne, three to Cairns or Alice Springs
near the famous Ayers Rock, and six to Darwin or Perth. But
you don't need to go everywhere to discover Australian way
of life and play.
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Around
Sydney
From the top of the hill
where the clubhouse is settled, there is a paramount overview.
Facing the wind, to the far
horizon where tankers, merchant and container ships, fishing
and pleasure boats are sailing in and out from Sydney harbour,
stay the ocean, only the ocean… Fairways are sloping downhill
to meet the sea on low greenish gradients reaching white
foamy sheer cliffs. One could think to be somewhere in Ireland
or in New England.
But it is not the Irish Sea neither the Atlantic Ocean,
it is the immense Pacific Ocean. In fact, on the other side
of the bay, arise the multiple heads of Sydney skyscrapers
around the gracious silhouette of the Sydney Tower, the highest
south Pacific building which dominates from its 305 meters
high one the most attractive city in the world.
The clubhouse
is on the top of the "New South Wales Golf Club".
It is, after the "Royal Melbourne", ranked in the
100 best courses in the world. Here the exceptional sight's
exaltation and exultation multiply the sport enjoyment.
It's also an
historical place. Even if Captain Cook was the first discoverer
of Australia, the bay wears the name of the French Captain
La Perouse who lands here and our Australian sport organizer
from Koala Golf joked: "if La Perouse would have landed
here two weeks before than he did, that's to say just before
Cook, maybe today we should speak French instead of English!"
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