Eat Your Heart Out Al Czervik: First Golf Course-Cemetery Merger On Tap?
/Thanks to Pete Finch for Tweeting Leesha McKenny's story on Sydney's Rockwood Country Club considering a sale and lease deal to a next door neighbor cemetery for either long term use or, I don't know, short term mass grave use? Strange stuff...
For the next 20 years, golfers would notice no difference but after that the new owners would begin to make use of the land to cope with growing demand.
''After that a fairway could be taken out of play for a limited period but would be totally restored for play after use,'' the club has told members in a bulletin.
Players were assured their games would not suffer.
''There would be no memorials, headstones or plaques on the course and suitable alternative fairways would be in play for limited periods.''
The club disclosed the talks in a bid to dispel rumours that it had sold the entire course or the 11th fairway to the cemetery.
Rookwood had been allowed to conduct a soil analysis and valuation of the course, although ''no offer has been made and no agreement or commitment of any sort has been given,'' it said.