Fairway to Heaven? Cemetery Offers Burial On Golf Hole
Sunset Hills Memorial Park and Funeral Home in Bellevue, Wash., has created the Memorial Golf Park, which Sunset Hills says is "the nation's first golf-themed memorial park."
If you're one of those people who is always dying to play golf, this might be for you. The Memorial Golf Park consists of one golf hole, complete with tee box, fairway, bunker and putting green.
Including both full-casket burial plots and cremation placements, 1,281 golfers can be buried on the hole. Or, to put it another way, 320 fourballs plus one single. That poor single. He's always going to be waiting, and always asking to play through. (No fivesomes allowed in heaven!)
The cup on the putting green is custom-made of bronze and provides access to an under-the-green ossuary. Which gives new meaning to the expression, "die in the hole."
Arne Swanson, Seattle region marketing director for Sunset Hills' corporate parent, came up with the idea after seeing the family of a cremated golfer spreading his ashes on a public golf course.
"In the ceremony I witnessed, the family of the golfer can't easily visit the eighth fairway of the public golf course on his or her birthday," Swanson said in a company news release. "My thought was that there were likely other golfers who would like to be memorized amid the surroundings of a verdant, peaceful golf course."
Finally, a buried lie golfers can be happy about.