In 2004, Alf Caputo, who lives in Perth, was chairman of the Goldfields Tourism Association, and his friend, Bob Bongiorno, ran the Caledonia Hotel at Nullarbor. The pair was trying to come up with a plan to encourage people to spend more time in Nullarbor, and Bob came up with the idea of a golf course. 

They approached the Western Australian Government and received a grant of $