[Cory Lewis]

After my childhood idol:  Oscar the Grouch Golf Club,

we got trash cans for tee markers, mounds built by throwing sand on garbage piles, sewers for streams

if you want to complain about the design, the pace of play, or the attitude of the owner you picked the wrong golf course.

Logo would be simple:  Trash can with garbage overflowing

[HamiltonBHearst]

I have not given much thought to the name of my club.  I suppose it would be important where it is located.  

I would however use the Hearst family crest for the "members logo".  It adorns my mainsail and it looks great.

[Mike Benham]

Leary National or International.

Logo would be a guy making the L sign with his hand on his forehead.

The NorCal Captains are now really questioning their roster selections ...

[George Pazin]

Only 2 other people know the name of my club, and I'm not ready to reveal it to the public yet.

No idea on the logo.

I like mayday's and Joe Hancock's ideas, so you can infer that mine will have a bit of humor in it as well.

[Tim Gavrich]

If I ever became fantastically wealthy, with disposable income enough to build my own golf course, it would be The Martlet Club, an homage to the mascot for my school's sports teams.  Faculty, students, alumni, and families of students and alumni would comprise the membership.  

The logo: a Martlet with crossed clubs.

A few words on golf course names:

There seem to be four popular, general forms by which to name golf courses, and most interestingly, they seem to correspond (albeit very loosely) to different levels of quality.  They are:
1. ________ ________ Golf Course--Almost always public, often municipal courses.  Quality-wise, lowest of the four distinctions; quality ranges from bad (most dumpy courses) to good/very good (e.g. Wintonbury Hills Golf Course, Bethpage Black Golf Course)
2. _______ _______ Golf Club--Can be public (e.g. Whistling Straits Golf Club) or private (e.g. Shinnecock Hills Golf Club), and range in quality (Gillette Ridge Golf Club gets my vote for worst of the bunch), but overall a bit higher than _____ _____ Golf Course courses.
3. ______ ______ Country Club--More often Private than not; better than "Golf Club" courses on the average (Pine Valley Country Club), but a bad "Country Club" tends to be rarer than a bad "Golf Course" and "Golf Club"
4. (The) ______ ______ Club--Almost always private, and almost always of higher quality than the previous three (but again in a wide range, of course).  Exclusivity is often higher as well (The Creek Club, Cypress Point Club).

Now of course, these four categories don't account for everything, andmay not quite always hold true, but I think it's worth keeping in mind in a general sense, at least.  To demonstrate, You might think of one familiar example for each near your home, and rank the courses.  More often than not, I'll bet the "Golf Course" will be last, and the "Club" may well be first.

Here's an example for Connecticut:
4. Wintonbury Hills Golf Course
3. Hartford Golf Club
2. Country Club of Fairfield
1. Stanwich Club

It's just an example (I'll bet that whether CCF is better than Stanwich or not is debatable, but you get the idea...), but I'd imagine that it can be said in a lot of places.

[Larry_Rodgers]

 It has been some time since I was in one of the name the streets meetings. I do not want to let something out soon but Rupert Oneal from Ballyneal has one of the best names of a golf course and the ideas for a logo will probably get many people in this group thinking.

I do hope Rupert and Jim speak up as their next one is going to be very cool.

[Mike_Young]

Otay Golf Club
a picture of Buckwheat

[Tim Bert]

I'd name my course Furry Ridge, in honor of my two favorite courses - Furry Creek and Gillette Ridge  

Count me in the camp of those that thinks Dismal River sounds pretty cool and Old MacDonald doesn't.

Maybe TimberTrail, so I could include my name in the course, but there wouldn't be many trees on the course.

For logos, it definitely wouldn't be a butterfly.  Bandon Trails logo was disappointing and I think one of the big Hawaii courses also has a butterfly (Kapalua maybe?)  Not a fan of the butterfly.  I like the Sand Hills logo, so I might go with something simple like that.  

[cary lichtenstein]

When they get done playing Old McDonald every single one will have been exposed and I'm sure with all the literature that will be written, handouts, scorecards, caddies, golfers will know what a Redan, Eden, Barritz, etc is. That is sooooo good for golf.

Cary, for such a well traveled textile baron you are the worst speller of names I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.  Could you please explain to me what is good for golf about golfers knowing what a Redan, Eden or Barritz is...I think template holes died for good reason, most notably the Barritz.

note:  It is Biarritz and you might want to check on the name of the owner of Bandon.

John:

Spelling corrected, Biarritz it is, thank you

The reason I think Old McDonald" is soooooooo good for golf is that it breaks the Fazio/Nicklaus/Rees mold. It will show to the golfing world that there are other things that can be done, that have been done in the past, and these things are not "Accessible" to them.

It will show to all the greens chairman from every private club that quirk works and is fun.

We took another couple on a trip this summer, we played Yale, Old White(which is the restored McDonald/Raynor), Cascades and Royal New Kent. We walked them thru the architecture. They were amazed and thrilled. Their eyes and minds absorbed the whole thing.

It was like an "awakening". I think this can happen here as Bandon is so high profile.

[Ted Kramer]

Figliano Way. . .based on a drinking game from college.

Logo:

Figliano
        Way

-Ted

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Name: St Juthwara's Golf Club
Emblem: a cream cheese

Why?  Read on, it's worth it.

This is verbatim from the Oxford Dictionary of Saints (David Hugh Farmer, Oxford 1978):

Juthwara (date unknown), virgin (and martyr?) was British, perhaps from Cornwall.  Her brother was said to be Paul Aurelian and her sisters Sativola of Exeter and Wulvela of Cornwall.  Her relics were translated to Sherborne under AElfwald II (1045-58).  These seem to be the most certain facts about her: her Legend in N.L.A. is a farrago of impossibilities.  According to this story, as in the Legend of Sidwell, she was the victim of a jealous stepmother.  Juthwara, a pious girl who practised much prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, suffered after her father's death from a pain in her chest, brought on perhaps by her sorrow and austerities.  The stepmother recommended as a remedy two cheeses applied to her breasts; meanwhile she told her own wicked son called Bana that Juthwara was pregnant.  He accused her, found her underclothes were moist, and struck of her head there and then.  The usual spring of water then appeared; Juthwara carried her head back to the church; Bana repented, became a monk, and founded a monastery....

From there on the story is less interesting, except that her usual emblem is a cream cheese.  I love the description: 'The usual spring of water.'  Scholarship does not have to be dully written!

[Mark_Rowlinson]

I should have added that the course will be designed by a committee of GCA regulars, to guarantee consistency of style....

[Mark Bourgeois]

Mark, no, it should be designed by Donald Trump, who is as cheesy as they come.

Mark

[John Kavanaugh]

When they get done playing Old McDonald every single one will have been exposed and I'm sure with all the literature that will be written, handouts, scorecards, caddies, golfers will know what a Redan, Eden, Barritz, etc is. That is sooooo good for golf.

Cary, for such a well traveled textile baron you are the worst speller of names I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.  Could you please explain to me what is good for golf about golfers knowing what a Redan, Eden or Barritz is...I think template holes died for good reason, most notably the Barritz.

note:  It is Biarritz and you might want to check on the name of the owner of Bandon.

John:

Spelling corrected, Biarritz it is, thank you

The reason I think Old McDonald" is soooooooo good for golf is that it breaks the Fazio/Nicklaus/Rees mold. It will show to the golfing world that there are other things that can be done, that have been done in the past, and these things are not "Accessible" to them.

It will show to all the greens chairman from every private club that quirk works and is fun.

We took another couple on a trip this summer, we played Yale, Old White(which is the restored McDonald/Raynor), Cascades and Royal New Kent. We walked them thru the architecture. They were amazed and thrilled. Their eyes and minds absorbed the whole thing.

It was like an "awakening". I think this can happen here as Bandon is so high profile.

Cary,

What I do when I am unsure of the spelling of a name out of the architectural world is click on the courses by architect section of this web site...You are still missing a few.  No capital D as that is bad for golf...You might want to check out the owner of Bandon while you are at it.

[Jeff_Brauer]

Well, along the dog theme, I have a Corgi, so I suspect that would get a nod.  Logo is obvious.

If it was here in DFW, maybe the Trinity Club or Trinity River Club, since the Trinity River and branches touches every part of the City. Logo might be old style letters with TRC spelled out.

My favorite town was where my grandfather worked - Rossford, Ohio, and I like the sound of the Rossford Club, although it wouldn't have any signifigance elsewhere.  

If someone thought that I should add "national" to the title, in a bit of one (or two) upmanship, I would skip right over "International" to "Galactic" or "Intergalactic".

Or, for humor, just call it "Tiddly Links" or "The Links at Wit's End." I might just call it "Its my damn club and I'll do what I want" with the logo would be a IMDCQIDWIW - or an extended middle finger, which I would also memorialze out in the first fw with a similarly shaped sand bunker.  Hey, Desmond Muirhead had his symbolism, and I have mine!

[Paul Jones]

Iberia Golf Club

It was a small 9 hole course along the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, LA that I grew up on. It is now a new subdivision.  I would use the orignal logo which was the only the name of the course.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=30.013457~-91.817502&style=a&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000

[Paul Jones]

Sure - he could be the Greens Chairman :-)

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