Tragic.

The 18-year-old was killed when an unofficial “stag grad party” by the Tor Hill Golf Course northeast of the city went badly awry. The accident occurred shortly after 3 a.m. Friday after the teen entered a fenced storage compound and got onto a small, four-wheel, utility tractor.

“He started the tractor and was trying to get out of the fenced compound, and was killed while he was on the tractor,” RCMP spokeswoman Carole Raymond said. At this point, no one is saying how the teen started the tractor—ordinarily used by maintenance staff to carry tools and equipment around the golf course—or if the key was left inside.

“We know the (John Deere) Gator drove towards the fence, and the fence was damaged and came back onto the tractor, causing the death,” said Raymond.

A speedboat called the Final Fling hit some rocks, flew into the air and landed in a bunker on the Loch Lomond Course in Scotland.

Torrey Pines doesn’t have a lock on the US Open in golf. As it turns out, there are two professional miniature golf circuits, and this year’s Open is being held in Boothbay, Maine, at the Dolphin Mini Golf Course. The New York Times reports on the sport:

Men and women are ranked nationally and travel to tournaments days in advance to chart the courses, practice eight hours a day and plot strategies for getting an ace on every hole. Some players carry their specially crafted putters in gold cases, and others keep their golf balls in boxes like humidors to regulate temperature and ensure consistent bounces off brick or stone railings.

There’s a 50-page rule book, which includes an antidoping clause, and a dress code: collared shirts and no sandals.

“I know it sounds crazy, but you can’t just walk out there and compete with the mini golf pros,” said Gilchrist, a 62-year-old restaurant owner from Maine. “If some guy from the PGA Tour came to one of our events and tried it without practicing for at least a month, he would be humiliated.”

The average player averages 30 strokes for 18 holes over six rounds.

Sergio Garcia doesn’t stand a chance.

A principal in Montgomery County, Maryland, has caused community outrage by tooling around the high school campus on a golf cart:

The redesigned $87 million Richard Montgomery High School, flagship of the Montgomery County school system, occupies a building that’s as long as two football fields. So Moreno Carrasco, the principal, decided to purchase a golf cart to help him get around.

This has not gone over well with some in the school community.

Parent activists have seized on the golf cart as a symbol of administrative excess in a school system that is asking everyone else to endure cuts. Superintendent Jerry D. Weast has curtailed all but essential spending as the county seeks to close a $297 million budget deficit.

My friends, as a teacher I can tell you that education—like golf—is a walking game.