{"id":1711523,"date":"2026-10-06T20:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UZdWuqx2hZBZjujNGSRYyT"},"modified":"2026-10-06T20:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T20:58:30","slug":"the-pc-gamer-mysteries-case-1-a-slice-of-death-why-is-there-a-dead-golfer-hidden-in-golden-tee-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-pc-gamer-mysteries-case-1-a-slice-of-death-why-is-there-a-dead-golfer-hidden-in-golden-tee-99\/","title":{"rendered":"The PC Gamer Mysteries, Case #1: “A Slice of Death”: Why is there a dead golfer hidden in Golden Tee ’99?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Golden Tee ’99, hole seven, Aspen Lake: There’s a dead body about 180 yards out, a little bit to the right in the woods there,” says Keith of Keith’s Arcade, a YouTube channel not typically devoted to cold case homicides. But as they say in golf, you’ve got to play it as it lies, and in November 2012 Keith stumbled upon a body lying motionless just off the green of the otherwise picturesque, forested course in northern Colorado. It was his responsibility to tell the world what he’d found.<\/p>\n

“There you go. There you go,” Keith repeats, clearly in shock. “Dead body in the woods, about 180 yards from the tee off point. Hole seven, Aspen Lake, Golden Tee ’99. Thanks for watching.” <\/p>\n

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That’s a dead body, all right. You can tell because of the pixels. <\/span>(Image credit: Incredible Technologies)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Under the pixelated body is a pool of blood, suggesting this unidentified man lying facedown in the grass met a violent end. A golf club stretches out from his hand\u2014but was he really a golfer? Or was it placed there to make it look<\/em> like a tragic accident, an injury sustained during what is well-known to be a dangerous game? Were there clouds suddenly darkening over the course beside Aspen Lake, or were those just scanlines?<\/p>\n

Golfers, famously, take their lives into their own hands every time they get in one of those little carts (no seatbelts!!) and drive it, like, 200 yards. Perhaps that’s why this death went uninvestigated for so long\u2014it’s even conspicuously absent from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s cold case files, at least according to my comprehensive independent examination (typing the word “golf” into the database, getting zero results and immediately giving up).<\/p>\n

To solve a case this<\/em> cold, I knew there was only one place to go: straight to the source.<\/p>\n

Bogey in the rough<\/h2>\n
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