(CNN) On a golf course in northern Australia everything is swinging ... not least because 30 players are in the nude.

Well, not completely nude -- these golfers strolling around the Humpty Doo golf course near Darwin have compromised by wearing golf shoes and a hat to protect them from the sun.

The "Wandering Bares" event was organized by 69-year-old nudist Bruce Jensen and his wife Julie, who run the "BruJul Nudist Retreat."

"We presented the event before the club committee, it took months of negotiating but they finally said we could play naked golf," Jensen told CNN Sport.

However, the committee did blanch at the naked golfers playing on the eighth and ninth fairways, which are situated in full view of the clubhouse. As a result, those two holes had to be skipped.

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