{"id":21915,"date":"2018-08-07T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T07:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/men-and-women-play-naked-in-a-tournament-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2018-08-07T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T07:59:37","slug":"men-and-women-play-naked-in-a-tournament-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/men-and-women-play-naked-in-a-tournament-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Men and women play naked in a tournament in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-8503\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos1.jpg 780w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos1-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><span>It\u2019s unusual, really, but that\u2019s what happened on an Australian golf course: a tournament in which men and women competed naked. Or practically naked, because they were wearing shoes and caps to protect themselves from the sun. It happened in the north of the country, at the Humpty Doo club, near Darwin, and the initiative was made possible thanks to the efforts of nudists Bruce Jensen, 69, and his wife, Julie, who run a nudist club.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"cn cn-list-hierarchical-xs cn--idx-4 cn-zoneAdContainer\" data-layout=\"list-hierarchical-xs\"><\/ul>\n<div class=\"el__embedded el__embedded--standard\">\n<div class=\"element-raw appearance-standard\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-8505\" src=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.holaincompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos-2.jpg 780w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos-2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/images_Actual2018_Desnudos-2-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/>\u201cWe presented the event to the club committee, it took months of negotiations but they finally said we could play golf naked,\u201d Jensen told CNN Sport.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><span>However, the committee forgot about the nude golfers on the eighth and ninth fairways, both visible from the clubhouse, so it finally agreed that those two holes would not be played by nudists.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><span>\u201cSince it was a great success, I\u2019m going to push to play those two holes next year,\u201d Jensen noted. A great relative success, it must be said, because participation was limited to about thirty players. <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\">\n<div class=\"element-raw appearance-fullwidth\"><span><\/span><span>Playing golf naked presents its challenges, not the least of which is the danger of skin chafing when carrying golf bags.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><span>\u201cThere was one attendee who, instead of using a buggy, used his shoulder to carry his clubs, which was a mistake because you can only do that when you\u2019re wearing clothes, as it provides a layer of protection,\u201d Jensen said.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s unusual, really, but that\u2019s what happened on an Australian golf course: a tournament in which men and women competed naked. Or practically naked, because they were wearing shoes and caps to protect themselves from the sun. It happened in the north of the country, at the Humpty Doo club, near Darwin, and the initiative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}