Best Name for a Golf Course

[Evan_Green]

Ok so we had a worst name for a golf course thread, how about the best name for a golf course:

I have to go with:

The Country Club

I mean it's THE Country Club- its the original- how can you beat that?

[JESII]

The Country Club

I mean it's THE Country Club- its the original- how can you beat that?

How about The Old Course?

[Evan_Green]

The Old Course is quite a good one too  

But still how many XYZ Country Clubs are there out there, while Brookline gets to be THE Country Club.

[JESII]

True, if not a bit presumtuous.

[JLahrman]

What about The Country Club in Pepper Pike?  Just a cheap imposter?

[Bill Gayne]

The National Golf Links of America.

I think the name fits the founder of the Club perfectly.

[Michael Moore]

Maine takes the cake on a percentage basis. Behold the annual rundown -

Grindstone Neck
Nonesuch River
Prouts Neck
Cape Arundel
Poland Springs
Kebo Valley
Northeast Harbor
Causeway Club
Mingo Springs

Those fin-de-siecle Philadephia bluebloods really left us with some classy near-perfect course names.

[Adam_F_Collins]

Some of my favorites:

Merion
Seminole
Crystal Downs
Bethpage Black
Riviera
Inverness
Maidstone
Winged Foot
Westward Ho!
Interlachen
Royal County Down
Ballybunion
Turnberry
Loch Lomond
Lahinch
Walton Heath

I like unique, distinct names with charater which avoid the trap of making reference to some obvious landform (creek, hill, valley, ridge, lake, river, island) or animal ( fox, osprey, eagle, wolf, deer, lion, bear, beast, moose, cow, or lynx). It's too "just-add-water". And there's WAY too many of them.

If I built my own, I'd name it "Lothlorien".

[Michael Moore]

I like unique, distinct names with charater which avoid the trap of making reference to some obvious landform (creek, hill, valley, ridge, lake, river, island) . . .

I guess that would rule out Crystal Downs, Royal County Down, Loch Lomond, Interlachen and Walton Heath.

[JDoyle]

I love the couses named after people native to the area:

Seminole
Shinnecock
Cuscowilla (I am guessing on this one)
Kittansett
Wanamoisett

They are much better than the Tides, Pines, Forest or other generic names....for examples look anywhere in Florida.

Recent favorite, hands down - Friar's Head.

Twisted Gun is also excellent:  http://www.twistedgungolf.com/

[mike_malone]

 Jonathan, We have Aronimink.

[Adam_F_Collins]

I like unique, distinct names with charater which avoid the trap of making reference to some obvious landform (creek, hill, valley, ridge, lake, river, island) . . .

I guess that would rule out Crystal Downs, Royal County Down, Loch Lomond, Interlachen and Walton Heath.

I guess I knew that was coming. But I thought by putting them in the list, you'd see what I meant. To clarify - I mean using the common North American words, like "lake" (not Loch) or "river", or "valley", or "ridge" etc.

[Paul_Lorenzen]

The Black

[Michael Moore]

This is a serious question.

What do you think is behind the sports-centric memorialization of our vanquished native foes? Course names, teams of all sports on every level, etc.

Is it a desire to further humiliate the defeated?

A desire to honor the defeated?

Guilt on the part of the victors? Something else?

I am not offended by this practice, nor do I have a closet full of Chief Wahoo branded Cleveland Indians gear. I do not know enough about history to generalize about the relations between conquerer and conquered.

[Adam_F_Collins]

When Trump gets to 100 courses, will he buy Golf Digest and revise the categories to include only courses with Waterfalls?

Well we'll have the list of the "Trump 100 Golf Courses in the World"

[mike_malone]

Michael Moore,
     How the Indian name came to be used should be a factor in evaluating it. From what I was told, Aronimink was the password to get onto the West Philadelphia Golf Club. When the club went to the burbs the name went with it. Even if that's not true, it is a good story.


     I am uncomfortable with using ethnic names that assume certain characteristics, such as, Indians are warlike.

    "The Fighting Irish" seems okay, because if the "fighting" weren't there one would not attach much connotation to "Irish".


    The Fighting Quakers is insane to me.

[Mike Nuzzo]

Carthage Club
&
Old Sandwich

[Allan Hutton]

The New Course - 110 years old and counting...

[Rob_Waldron]

How about Settindown Creek outside of Atlanta. The only thing better than the name are the miniature rocking chairs used for tee markers.

[Joel_Stewart]

The Country Club

I mean it's THE Country Club- its the original- how can you beat that?

The Golf Club

[Tony_Chapman]

I almost like anything Mike Strantz does:

Tobacco Road, Royal New Kent, Caledona Fish Club, True Blue

All of those are pretty good, in my opinion.

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Dyke

[Tony_Chapman]

Two more:

The Lightning Bug Course at Solitude

Addison and Leah's Playground (for Mr. Gracely)

[Evan Fleisher]

I know someone said they did not like courses that start with "THE" on the worst thread, but how about this one...

The Bourne (pronounced "burn" after the creeks found on Scottish links courses)

http://www.golfillinois.com/departments/coursereviews/the-bourne-review-646.htm

[George Pazin]

I've always been partial to Rye and Ganton - they suggest a certain stoutness to me. Plus Rye has the whole wry thing going for it as well. I also like when people refer to UK courses by location rather than name, like Sandwich.

Domestically I'm a big fan of the name Sheep Ranch.

I have my own name for my own Sheep Ranch that I hope to build someday, but I am not divulging it, for fear of suffering the same fate as my namesake George on Seinfeld.