I used a snippet from Eliot in another post, and an on-line friend sent me one from the chorus of Eliot's pageant play "The Rock":
And the wind shall say: “Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.”
There's a course up in Ontario cottage country called The Rock, designed by Nick Faldo. Apparently quite tough, though I don't think you lose balls there as much as have them ricochet off the native rocks that line the narrow fairways.
Peter