Key 'golf course' into your news search engine and you're usually led towards some fairly predictable themes.
Every once in a while, however, you find yourself 'off road' by some margin, as with the tale of the Equatorial Guinea Forestry Minister who has his very own four-hole golf course in the place where most of us are happy just to have rhododendrons and a bird bath.
Yes, let's hear it for Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (I'm thinking 'Teddy' to his mates) and the fabulous world of the DIMBYs, or 'Definitely In My Back Yard'.
Flagging up the little matter of $100m allegedly extorted from his homeland by Mr Nguema, the New Zealand Herald kindly includes the full address of the Malibu home at which he ponders the state of Equatorial Guinea's woodlands. Or did, before the bailiffs moved in.
This leaves us just a Google Maps visit away from discovering what par 3 delights await at 3620 Sweetwater Mesa Rd.
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All right, so the bunkering isn't particularly imaginative and the Google Earth rendition shows it to be a bit penal for anything left but we'll dole out a few kudos points for the water hazard.
No news of the architect as yet.
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