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<\/a><\/p>\nWhen golfers are sidelined because of rain or sleet or snow or as in my case, the flu, our minds start dreaming of everything we have ever done around a course. I\u2019ve been honking and coughing for weeks, so it\u2019s been waaaay too long since I stood anywhere near a green. On the plus side, the Golf Channel has been on for 24 hours straight and I am getting some great tips on improving my short game. Choking up on the 9-iron might give me an edge. But, it\u2019s me after all, and I started thinking about bodies on the course.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve maintained that hiding a body on a course is not all that easy, because there is a lot of foot traffic from dawn to dusk, whether it\u2019s the players themselves or groundskeepers in charge of maintaining the fairways, the greens, and the deep rough\/woods next to the fairways.<\/span><\/p>\n In September of 2016, a woman was heard arguing with her boyfriend at 5 a.m., was dragged away, then driven to a golf course in the Chicago area and left there. Her body was found a little after 8 a.m. and the boyfriend was charged a few days later.<\/span><\/p>\n Then, in October, 2016, a body was found in a pond near a fairway at the Seven Bridges Golf Club in Illinois. It was golfers who discovered the body of the 29-year-old man, so they were probably looking for a lost ball. Imagine that surprise!<\/span> Private and\/or public courses are not the only places bodies pop up. In January, 2017, a 50-year-old man\u2019s body was found in the water at the Cypress Lakes Golf Course, which is operated by the 60th Force Support Squadron at Travis Air Force Base. Another non-suspicious death, but seriously, how expensive was<\/em> that golf ball?<\/span><\/p>\n All these bodies had been discovered within a few days of the person\u2019s death. But with this next case from February, 2017, the remains had been there since 2005. Twelve years of nobody tripping over a young man who had committed suicide? He was found next to the second fairway at a Columbus, Ohio, Golf and Country Club.<\/span><\/p>\n Danny Sanders was a senior at Worthington Kilbourne High School when he left his house in February, 2005 and he wasn\u2019t reported missing for 10 days. When asked why they waited so long, the family thought that he had just taken off somewhere. Then three months later, the father discovered that his handgun was missing.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n A Fire Dive Rescue Team recovered the body, and the police decided that there was no foul play involved. That made me think of all the times I\u2019ve played near water hazards and was tempted to go in after a ball that didn\u2019t quite make it across the lily pads. I always opted for keeping my feet dry and left the ball to the ducks unless I could see the little white orb right at the edge. What could have made the guy go in far enough to lose his footing and drown?<\/span><\/p>\n