Travel Feature: Capital Country – Golf Australia Magazine

No. Rather, we’re talking the sweet, pure, high-country air where Canberra sits, incongruously, atop the Great Dividing Range, the plateau lands at the northern edge of the Australian Alps. Where the weather might be described as ‘crisp’, or, if a southerly sweeps in from snow-capped Brindabellas, ‘Sweet Jesus! It’s Baltic! Lock up the animals!’

For golf, though, the weather is pure. Even when minus temperatures begat a thick morning frost, it means a clear, sunny, still day. Cold, sure. But, at any time, golfers can don the invention known as ‘clothing’. A beanie, a fleece, a body-hugging ‘skin’ of sorts, and you can stride onto that first tee, suck in that cold, sweet air, and set that Hot Dot free.

Enough with the air? So what about the air? So this: because Canberra is…