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BARLOW MOTORS

MINIATURE GOLF HAZARD

Michael John Stephenson

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I wanted to create a hazard that represented the various challenges faced by A.G. Barlow

in his lifetime. I named this hazard ‘High Stakes, High Gains, Low Falls - The life and

death of a car salesman’, as I feel that A.G. Barlow was a man who took risks as at-

tempts of making fast and large profi ts. Of course, inherit with high gains are even lower

falls should you fail.

This hazard attempts to act as a metaphor for such things. If you don’t aim your shot

correctly, you will fall off the edge and have to deal with the tombstones of grievous

challenges. If you aim too high, you might overshoot the hole and fl y through the skull

(which leads to immeadiate death). But if you aim and hit it just right, you’ll get ‘on top’

and get a hole in one.

This will also eventually lead to the ‘RIP’ tombstone (as that is innevitable) but you

would’ve won the game, (as opposed to losing via dealing with the tombstones).

The hill like form for this hole originally came from a graph depicting a stock market

crash (here, the cliff at the end is the crash point... so you must stop (your ball) before

reaching that point).

BARLOW MOTORS - MINIATURE GOLF HAZARD

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BARLOW MOTORS - MINIATURE GOLF HAZARD

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BARLOW MOTORS - MINIATURE GOLF HAZARD

The idea of shooting a golf ball through a skull is perhaps in bad taste, and too dark

a kind of humour (as it represents A.G. Barlows actual death). But if AG Barlow had

survived, I feel like he would’ve been the type of person to laugh at his own attempted

suicide, especially since he overcame all of his problems and gained success enough

to be building a multi storey car showroom in the CBD.

I feel like he would’ve enjoyed this hazard as a memorial to his struggle and his

triumph that was literally returning from the brink of death.

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BARLOW MOTORS

MINIATURE GOLF HAZARD

MICHAEL JOHN STEPHENSON

329784