The Woop-Woop Whack

OFF to have a little game of golf on a bush course where players place their green fees in an honesty box and the local rules allow a drop without penalty if your ball bounces off a kangaroo and into the rough.

Someone should produce a coffeetable book on Australia's bush courses. Here, for example, is Coober Pedy's answer to St Andrews:

That's a sand green held together with sump oil. The next tee is the little patch of Astroturf in the foreground at the lower left.

PGA pro Craig Hocknull demonstrates some other bush-bred talents:

An old joke says that holding a one iron one above your head will always keep you safe in a lightning storm. Not even God can hit a one iron, you see. Hocknull can not only swing one, he can pick off cans dangling on strings. Remarkable.