Norseman Golf Club

Norseman is one of Australia's most remote towns — a crossroads settlement at the edge of the Nullarbor Plain, where the Eyre Highway begins its long, treeless crossing toward South Australia. It exists because of gold, discovered here in the 1890s, and the town retains that frontier character: practical, resilient, and far from anywhere. Playing golf here means playing somewhere genuinely at the end of the road.

The Norseman Golf Club is very much a product of its environment. Like most outback Australian clubs, it almost certainly plays on sand scrapes rather than grass greens — a distinctly Australian tradition where players carry a small piece of artificial turf called a "mat" to place the ball on fairways, and the "greens" are oiled or treated sand, smoothed before each putt. It's a style of golf that strips the game to its essentials, and there's a real purity to it.

The landscape is classic Western Australian goldfields: sparse scrub, red-tinged earth, wandoo and mulga country under enormous skies. Visitors passing through on the Nullarbor crossing regularly stop to play, giving the club an unusually transient but warmly welcomed membership of one-time travellers.