All of your time at the driving range, hitting off of mats, might finally pay off. The world's first synthetic golf course is being built in Queensland, Australia's Capricorn Coast. The Sydney Morning Herald likens the course to Pamela Anderson, naming it the "Plastic Fantastic". Nothing could be more fantastic than jumping out from the Great Barrier Reef and jumping onto a pristine golf course. This could be a new fork in the evolutionary road of mankind.

Australia's Rockhampton landscape is doomed by drought and grass golf courses are prone to disease. The solution, brought to you by British developer Chris Dadson, is to build a full size, par 70, golf course using synthetic greens and tee boxes. The fairways will be covered in native couch grass. The synthetic turf reacts "very similarly" to normal turf. Hmmm....not so sure about that.

A great aspect, aside from playing golf where you wouldn't normally be able to, is the reduction in water and pesticides used. That's right. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

Efforts are being made to have the golf course rated by the Royal & Ancient. 

I'll try anything once and I am very curious to get a taste of these synthetic greens. Maybe some of Gourmet Golf's Aussie readers can enlighten us with their comments.