What does golf balls and rocks on a tombstone mean?  

I've never heard of that. Maybe it's not written on the tomestone, nor is it really a well known custom, but whatever reason those golf balls and rocks are there must be valid to the ones who put them there. Maybe it is an inside joke between the deceased and their friends.

very rarely are a persons hobbies inscribed on their tombstone. more than likely.. the golfballs were left by someone who was close to them, and the significance is personal tween the two, and dont really hold any sort of religious connotations at all.

It probably just means something to whoever put it there.
My husband had a best friend that dies several years ago and all kinds of things are left at his grave site.
His mother always puts those lawn decorations that blow in the wind. People leave beer bottle caps and when my husband had to cut off his long hair for a job the mother wanted a lock to put at the grave. She put it on the stone.

I have never heard of that....but my mother loved golf so by her headstone is a golf club that my dad cut off and put right next to her! She loved the game...but I have never ever heard of putting golf balls and rocks on a tombstone!

I find it strange to find golfballs on a tombstone. Maybe the deceased was a golf fanatic? People never refrain to surprise me. I find it as odd. I don't know how other mylotters think about this subject. I will be following this threat with great interest.
(c) ronaldinu 2009 - the more people I meet-the more I love my dog

Probably some kind of tradition, otherwise, I am stumped.