The end of October is also known as Halloween and even some golf courses are haunted. The festival, which originated in Ireland, is characterized by spooky pranks and scary costumes. The origin of Halloween lies in the belief that the dead return to earth on October 31. There are golf courses that are not only haunted on Halloween. Ghosts can be seen there all year round and scare the players in a frightening way.
The awakening of the cemetery ghosts
It is not uncommon for golf courses to be built on or around old cemeteries, disturbing the peaceful rest of the dead. This is also the case at Garrison Golf Club in the USA. On this course, the 14th hole, which is surrounded by a cemetery where many 19th century slaves are buried, is feared.
The Willbrook Plantation Golf Course in the USA is also located on a former slave cemetery, marked by a memorial plaque on the eighth hole of the course. It is important to keep quiet on such courses so as not to incur the wrath of the sleeping spirits.
Ghosts manipulate the game
Players are not always spared from the ghosts. On the Lincoln Park Golf Course in San Francisco, for example, the ghosts show that they really do exist. Here, too, the 18th hole was built on an abandoned cemetery. According to the golfers, the ghosts never fail to make balls disappear or reappear out of nowhere in other places.
In England, on the Church Stretton Golf Club course, there are also ominous ball thieves on hole 13. Players who see their balls land on the fairway are said to suddenly be unable to find them again when they get closer.
Murder victims show themselves to still be present
Some golf courses have a history of brutal murders. The murder victims would still reveal themselves in various ways, causing fear among golfers. At City Park in New Orleans, golfers repeatedly swear they hear the screams of a woman on the backswing at hole 18. It is said that the woman was murdered on the golf course in the 1960s.
Another murder case took place on the course of the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey. The farmer Baltus Rol is said to have been horribly killed here by two crooks in 1831. His ghost “Old Balty” still haunts the course. Easy to recognize: The golf club’s name commemorates the tragic story of Baltus Rol.
