"No one will dig them up. Golfers play without reflecting upon what lies beneath the verdant 18th hole."

James Montague of CNN.com suggests that Lebanon Golf Club is a possible mass grave. (Thanks reader Digsouth via Kevin Robbins.)

British journalist Robert Fisk, who wrote "Pity The Nation" about the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war, has repeatedly claimed the golf course as the burial site of many of the missing bodies.

"There are perhaps 1,000 murdered Palestinian civilians under the golf course near Beirut airport, dumped there by Israel's Phalangist allies after the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres," Fisk wrote in the British newspaper The Independent.

"No one will dig them up. Golfers play without reflecting upon what lies beneath the verdant 18th hole."

The piece includes a photo gallery of the club in various war-torn stages and scenes from today.

Hall Thompson, RIP

One of the stranger and sadder chapters in the game's history ends with the passing of Hall Thompson.

The Caddy's Compendium...

Thanks to reader Bill for this "Caddy's Compendium" by Margaret Erskine Cahill and posted on the Schott's Vocab blog at NYTimes.com. They were mostly new to me!

The jungle means the rough. While a day in the clouds is used to describe working on a hilly course. The Scotchman is the appellation bestowed upon professionals, regardless of country. Big house is the club house. Matinee loopers are so stigmatized because of their habit of reporting for duty late or in the afternoon.

Ice cream caddies are schoolboys who earn spending money through caddying, but who do not depend upon it for a living. A looping fool is a caddy who holds the record for doing the most caddying per day, per week or per season at any particular course.

The Potty Putter...

Several years into blogging not much makes my jaw drop, but this incredible find by GolfbloggerUK managed to do it. And no, this is not from The Onion. Amazon sells it. Really.