Whats your favorite logo

[Nick Pozaric]

After seeing the Pasatiempo logo for the first time the other day it got me thinking what my favorite course logo is.  What is your fav and PLEASE post an example of it for those who arent familar with many of the logos.

[Donnie Beck]

I like Friar's Head's logo

[ed_getka]

We've covered this in the past and some really good ones came up. If you can't find it in the archives I'm sure people will chime in. One of my favorites is Yale GC, its a bulldog holding a driver in his teeth. I like the fact that it doesn't spell out what course it is (there is a Y on the side of the dog though). Noel Freeman found a really cool one from Perranporth over in England that looks like the grim reaper.

[ed_getka]

Doesn't Friar's Head logo look like a yacht club logo, with some flags?

[George_Bahto]

well, Donnie, I like yours ...... Fishers Island

[cary lichtenstein]

merion

[TEPaul]

I like Sunnybrook's---it's probably the smallest I've ever seen. Actually, I just noticed what PVGC's was---a simple shield with a pine tree emblazoned on it. How ironic!  

[TEPaul]

redanman:

One thing you should know about PVGC is that it does not have a grillroom. It doesn't have a "signature hole" either!  

However, this is not to say the club's clever promoter, George Crump, did not partake in some very clever former day hype. He certainly did allow and apparently encourage others to say and write that 'no expense' would be spared on the golf course (the best and most effective "hype" in the old days). He certainly did promote and probably arrange for some of the most comprehensive architectural collaboration the world of architecture has ever known, or at least the certain appearance of it---a technique that clearly proved incredibly effective in perception and he also may've promoted the idea that he hired one of the most well-known architects in the world at that time to design his course for him for which he paid that architect a huge sum of money for that time. Did he really do that? Who knows! It may've just been more clever hype on his part!

Just watch Turner and MacWood start screaming that even the thought of such a thing is akin to calling Harry Colt a liar and denigrating his memory and everything else that's truly sacred in architecture!  

[TEPaul]

But in fairness and so as not to regenerate old arguments, my sense is Crump probably did pay Colt what Bole said he did in 1913 but that from there Crump continued for the next five years to just do his own thing. The fascinating point is, though, Crump himself never seemed to try to take credit for what he did, he seemed to be content to let others take credit for any number of things, such as Travis in his articles that Crump agreed to have him create a reverse routing on the course! That never happened! In a sense he seemed willing to "hold the con" until in the end others couldn't help but miss what really went on down there and by whom!  

[TEPaul]

"(what the f**k does HE know?)"

redanman:

That's not a bad question. Was Frederick Hawtree at PVGC at any time between 1912 and 1918 to actually see who did what?

What Hawtree said about Colt's contribution is probably another good example of depending too much on the printed word that never fit into a proper timeline. Colt himself said that he had the honour of laying out PVGC. But one might logically ask when Colt said and wrote that? Simon Carr (one of Crump's best friends) wrote a comprehensive article in GOLF ILLUSTRATED giving Colt a great deal of credit for PVGC but again, one might logically ask when Carr wrote that? And one needs to also logically ask why the things Carr wrote in 1918 were so different? It doesn't take a genius to figure out the answer to these questions. It's because a whole lot of things happened during those YEARS AFTER those things were written!

[TEPaul]

redanman:

Somewhere in the far back pages or the archives of this website is a post by you some years ago regarding PVGC where you said you'd be willing to go down to PVGC and point out to them what specifcally was Colt in their architecture!! I find that remark to be incredibly hilarious. I guess you could probably go down there and try to tell them something like that but any reasonable mind should also tell them to take information like that from you for what it's worth!  

[SJ_McCarthy]

After seeing the Pasatiempo logo for the first time the other day it got me thinking what my favorite course logo is.  What is your fav and PLEASE post an example of it for those who arent familar with many of the logos.

Secession.

[Bob_Huntley]

Sankaty Head. An image and nothing else. No writing, shields, fanciful curlicues or place names.

The simpler the better.

Burning Tree's ain't bad.

[Donnie Beck]

Newport is another one of my favorites

[Tony_Chapman]

I like this new one:



, the Sand Hills brand and the yucca at Praire Dunes (minus the excess)

[Jim Thompson]

I might be a little biased...

[John Engelbrecht]

Chechessee Creek...on clothing only the feather is used. (Note the golf flag superimposed in the feather). IMHO understated and tasteful.
http://www.chechesseecreekclub.com/index.html

[Jeff_Mingay]

I agree with: the simpler the better.

In fact, Jim - Angels Crossing's logo would be super cool, in my opinion, if you lost all of the words surrounding that elegant sketch of the angel. I'd buy a shirt or hat or wind shirt with that on it.

Just a thought  

Maidstone's rudimentary whale (looks like a cartoon of Moby Dick!) blowing water with the club's founding date under it - and nothing else - is pretty cool.

[Jim Thompson]

Jeff,

That is precisely what we do an about 75% of our logo items.  Great minds, eh?  In fact, our clothing vendors refer to it, just the icon on a garment, as "girlfriend" only.

[HamiltonBHearst]

Friar's Head is the best.  

[Tony Petersen]

  One "classic" logo that seems to get lost in the mix is the design for Desert Forest Golf Club. Though is looks like something created in Microsoft Works, for some reason I think it's a great logo... Can't explain, but it works!!!

[Gerry B]

Interesting that PV's logo clothing in the pro shop has the name and logo for guests and just the logo for members

here are some of my favorites -including some that have been mentioned already):

Merion
Fishers Island
Lahinch  - the goat
The Country Club in Brookline  - the squirrel logo
Yale
Chicago Golf Club -love the motto- "Far and Sure"
Friars Head  
The Atlantic City CC - the Bell which matches the tee blocks
The Creek Club  - the bird
Philadelphia Country Club - the horse
Walton Heath - the heather
Southampton- nice coat of arms
Sleepy Hollow - the headless horseman

 

[SPDB]

Gerry - You ever notice how similar the logos are for The Creek and Machrihanish?

[Sean Walsh]

In no particular order:

Tain - The Monk - similar to St Andrews
Crail - A sailing vessel.
Royal St Georges - St George Slaying the Dragon.
Royal Liverpool - The Liver bird plus the motto "Far and Sure"
Lahinch - The goats
Kingsbarns - Crown
Royal Dornoch - A Tiger? with and upturned horseshoe (Isn't this a sign of bad luck)
County Sligo - Tower, Rabbit, tree blown sideways with Benbulben? in the background

Kilmore my current home club has the Kookaburra (A Kingfisher).  For those non-australian posters this bird has a distinctive cry.  Actually a very load laugh. Lovely to hear just as you shank one on the 5th, where about 5 of the birds reside.

[Gerry B]

SBDB:

Do not remember the Macrihanish Logo but various renditions the Indian Head Logo has been used by such courses in the northeast as:
Shinnecock, Aronomink, Philly Cricket, Siwanoy, North Shore, Seawane, Indian Island, Shackamaxon, Mt. Kisco, plus it is used at Seminole as well.