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THE LONGEST DRIVE |
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Hello there.
For 3.5 months days from November 1, 2008 through mid-February 2009, journo Matt Cleary (me) will pilot a Subaru around the Giant Monster Island Continent of Australia, racking up 15,354km and playing golf roughly every other day.
He (me) will play 53 golf courses, 954 holes and what could amount to 45,000 golf shots. There could be 15,000 putts. There will be some beer.
The reason: is to write a series of monthly golf-travel articles for Australian Golf Digest magazine.
There will also be Adventure, travel, sports and “men’s lifestyle” (read: drinking) articles for Men’s Fitness, Inside Sport and Australian Traveler. There might be travel stuff for the weekend papers. Maybe a travelogue for Foxtel (camera permitting) and maybe a book.
The main reason, though, is because I would like to visit the outskirts of our Giant Monster Island and see what the backpackers and grey geese see. And because I can. And because people will go … gee. And some of them will buy News Ltd publication Australian Golf Digest. And News Ltd publications will give me money. Which is good. God bless you Capitalism, you’ve been getting rather a hard time of it of late but if there’s another mode of human organisation that allows a 39-year-old drunken idiot to drive around the country and play golf every and get paid for it, then I haven’t heard of it. And if there is one, well, aren’t those citizens onto something.
This would not happen in Stalinist North Korea.
Anyway!
I’ll be beginning in Sydney and proceeding in a clockwise fashion.
This, anyway, is The Plan. Click on the links in the highly-to-scale map on the front for a sports update on golf, adventure and drinking in the towns of the Great South Giant Monster Is-Land.
Or—drop us a line if you’re curious and/or might like to join us for a game of golf / beer / Tanami desert crossing in the hottest part of the year, or etc.
Cheers, Matt.
PS—Will try to update this blog thing every day or two.
PPS—Stats watch: petrol looks like it’s coming down in price (God bless you irresponsible global fat cats) but the Subaru will still go through something like 1,650 litres which at $1.50 per is $2475 worth of black gold, working out to be $176 a week.
PPPS—Luckily someone else will be paying for it. |
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