[Pete Blaisdell]

GJ
  My error, it's the 1t's the first at Kearny Hills in Lexington-  Man, is my memory going.Tim Clark at the APL IN '97

[Ed Brzezowski]

Joe,
Since we are on the subject how about friends buried ON the course??

I have placed two buddies on a course. anyone else?

ed

[SPDB]

Carnegie Abbey plays through an area that is dotted with the crude headstones marking burial spots of Hessian soldiers (German mercenaries) that died in the revolutionary war Battle of Rhode Island.   

[Alex Lagowitz]

Theres a very old cemetery on Rockaway River CC in NJ
Never hit one in there though

[James Boon]

Bill, John,

The cemetery on the 17th at Painswick is also in play on the left from the 1st tee shot as well. The best picture I have is this one from the 18th looking back towards it and zoomed in.


And the St Enodoc one is an excellent example, noteworthy for having John Betjeman's grave within
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Betjeman
which probably adds to the amount of walkers clogging up the footpath along the 10th fairway!

Cheers,

James

[James Boon]

Forgot to mention, the church on the 12th at Burnham & Berrow has a graveyard surrounding it, though with the church already sitting so low within the dunes, you never really see the gravestones from the course.

Cheers,

James

[John Mayhugh]

Forgot to mention, the church on the 12th at Burnham & Berrow has a graveyard surrounding it, though with the church already sitting so low within the dunes, you never really see the gravestones from the course.

Unless you hit one over that way.  I didn't hop the fence to look around, though.

[Garland Bayley]

No fair posting cemeteries from across the pond. You people have been burying people in cemeteries longer than we have.

[Ray Cross]

Joe,
There is a small (10-15 graves) one to the right of the first tee at Golden Oaks near Fleetwood, PA.

Memory seems to recall that most tombstones are dated in the 1700/1800's.
Ckeck it out.

Ray

[Pete_Pittock]

The Wells family plot is located by the 5th tee at Oak Knoll in Ashland, Oregon. Five headstones from the 1890s.
Kentucky family. noted for rifleman horses, that went to the California gold rush, then moved north.

[Jon Cavalier]

Here is the cemetery to the left of the 16th fairway and behind the 17th green at The Creek:

[Jon Cavalier]

Other courses with cemeteries I've noticed include:

Oak Point at Kiawah Island
Hudson Hills
Kings Creek CC (Rehoboth, DE)
RTJ Club
Bayside GC (also DE)
Cascades at Homestead
Cherry Valley (NJ)

Also, Ferry Point runs along perhaps the largest cemetery I've ever seen.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

West Cornwall, Hexham, Congleton, Upton-by-Chester.

[Carl Rogers]

    Upper Cascades.  I think it's to the left of the 6th or 7th tee.

Cascades, Hole 8, short one shot downhiller, is named Cemetery Ridge.  The old family cemetery is out of play & up the adjacent hill.  Easily missed.

[Nigel Islam]

Bellerive between the 4th and 5th holes
There is a dog buried just right of the first fairway at Sultan's Run in Indiana

[Tom_Doak]

The course I grew up on, Sterling Farms, had a small cemetery inside the dogleg of the short par-4 16th hole, with a stone wall surrounding it, and a few big trees in there for good measure.  It had been an old farm and there were a few graves from the farmer's ancestors.

[Nigel Islam]

The 16th at the Lindsey course at Fort Knox actually doglegs around a military cemetery with Arlington style tombstones. It was pretty neat!

[Matt Frey, PGA]

Played Bent Creek in Lititz, Pennsylvania, this weekend. There's a very old family cemetery behind No. 13; I assume it was a farmer's family, as there's an old barn and farmhouse nearby. From what I could read on the gravestones, it looked like they were dated in the late 1700s, but I didn't enter the fenced in area to have a closer look.



I also played Heritage in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, this winter and they have a slave burial ground on No. 8. It's fenced off with a historical placard, but I fear that due to the hole's tee and green in relation to the cemetery, it may see some play, which is incredibly unfortunate.



Additionally, we played Bala in Philadelphia last fall and stumbled upon a very old cemetery in the trees behind No. 3. It was in very bad shape and I'm confident very few people know it exist. I couldn't make out any names, but I believe some of the years were in the mid-1700s. Not sure what kind of cemetery it is.

[Rick Shefchik]

Ballybunion Old tee shot at 1.

Can't imagine there's a more famous cemetery adjacent to a golf course than this one. You stand on that tee and violate all the positive thinking lessons you've ever been given, and instead tell yourself, "Don't hit it into the graveyard. Don't hit it into the graveyard..."






So my wife hit her opening tee shot into the graveyard. As the sign says, no ball-hawking permitted:





Still, I had to get a picture of the ball as evidence that she'd visited:

[Philippe Binette]

Tarbat GC in Portmahomack, Scotland


9th hole, diagonal tee shot over the cemetery... and school yard !?!

[Mark Pearce]

My cricket club's ground  is bounded on two sides by a graveyard.  There it's a really good thing to hit it into the graveyard.  In golf, I guess that's never the case.

[Tim Leahy]

Ranch Murieta South course outside Sacramento, CA has a small family historic cemetary in play on the back side.

[Mark Kiely]

General Old Golf Course (the former March Air Force Base, now March Air Reserve Base) sits right next to Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, CA. The cemetery rings bells on the hour, which I find very soothing while simultaneously a nice reminder how nice it is to be alive and playing golf.

[Sam Krume]

If I remember rightly, I think there is a graveyard to the right of the 1st at Portmarnock, not the Old but the Hotel course.

[Kevin Robinson]

To add to Joel's comment on his home facility of the Landings outside Savannah - There is a single marked grave behind the the green (I forget which hole - #12 or #13 perhaps) on the Palmetto course at the Landings as well. I believe the deceased was one of the original settlers of Skidaway Island.


 - There is a fairly large family plot barely 75 feet from the back tee on hole #1 at Yeamans Hall - just behind the Harkness cottage. As I recall, the family buried within had some connection to the original plantation that operated on the property.


 - Rose-Hulman's home course, Hulman Links, possesses a fairly large family cemetery just left of #16 green. It is hidden somewhat by thick undergrowth, but it is there.

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