Alice Springs adidas Golf Outfit

This is our final round in the Southern Hemisphere for our global adventure. Throughout our trip we have faced every possible element nature can provide; we have put our adidas golf products to the test in rain, snow, sleet, heat, and hail. Today’s round at Alice Springs Golf Course provided us with a test that had all of the feeling of a surprise final exam. We came to Alice Springs expecting to play the hottest golf course on the planet, but when we finally put the peg in the ground on the first hole it was clear that we were in for so much more. Just off the West Coast of Australia Cyclone (better known as a hurricane to the North American audience) Lawrence has now reached what meteorologists call a stage 5 (larger than the infamous Hurricane Katrina that devastated America’s Gulf States) and with it added elements of 20-30 mph winds and rain into what would normally been just a day with 100+ degree heat. Today more than ever our adidas golf ClimaCool apparel proved to be the 15th club in our bags.

Even though we have faced all of these elements in some form over our adventure the extreme nature of Alice Springs’ geography made them different than anything we have previously encountered. Because Alice Springs is such a dry desert climate (the average annual rainfall is around 6mm) the light but steady rain that fell seemed to evaporate the second it hit the ground. Normally after the first sprinkles we would be reaching for our ClimaProof apparel, but the dry environment made it almost refreshing. Once more we were blown away with the quality of the course; the glowing red mountains that surrounded the lush green fairways reminded us that we were a world apart from the golf we play at home.