What US Club Crest is......

[Matthew Hunt]

What US Club Crest has a Fox with a hunting horn above it?

I will delete the thread when I get the answer.

[Peter_Herreid]

That would be the venerable Myopia Hunt Club, north of Boston

[Garland Bayley]

So Matthew, you think you are the new Tommy N? You think just anybody can delete a thread? You can't even delete your post!

For the curious amongst us, what motivated the question?

[Matthew Hunt]

You can just delete by deleting the first post on the thread I think, I've done it before.

Some Man staying at my grandparents B+B gave them a hat with that crest on it, as well as 20 Pro V's(They are £4 each over here!)

[Garland Bayley]

You can just delete by deleting the first post on the thread I think, I've done it before.
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Did you get your answer? If so try deleting the first post. You might have a surprise in store for you.  

[Brad Tufts]

I wonder if it was pro Bill Safrin coming over with a few members....

[Michael Christensen]

I can remember playing with a few Myopia members in S Carolina.  They mentioned a club sanctioned trip to Ireland....on one of the last nights in the pubs, a local came up and asked where they were all from.  He then asked what "the rat and plunger" emblem meant??  I always get a kick out of that!  It does look like a rat!

[Matthew Hunt]

They told my grandmother that the crest won awards.

[Garland Bayley]

Is this it?

http://www.myopiahuntclub.org/

[Wayne_Kozun]

Here it is:



Looks similar to the Toronto Hunt Club:


I imagine that other "Hunt Clubs" have similar crests.

[Marty Bonnar]

I can remember playing with a few Myopia members in S Carolina.  They mentioned a club sanctioned trip to Ireland....on one of the last nights in the pubs, a local came up and asked where they were all from.  He then asked what "the rat and plunger" emblem meant??  I always get a kick out of that!  It does look like a rat!

That Toronto Hunt Club logo must be the 'Rat, Plunger and Sheep's Testicles' one, then eh???

I'm not so sure about the MyOpIA mix of upper and lower case. Way too moderne for such an old institution...

FbD.

[Garland Bayley]

I can remember playing with a few Myopia members in S Carolina.  They mentioned a club sanctioned trip to Ireland....on one of the last nights in the pubs, a local came up and asked where they were all from.  He then asked what "the rat and plunger" emblem meant??  I always get a kick out of that!  It does look like a rat!

That Toronto Hunt Club logo must be the 'Rat, Plunger and Sheep's Testicles' one, then eh???

I'm not so sure about the MyOpIA mix of upper and lower case. Way too moderne for such an old institution...

FbD.

Are you confusing modern with Greek?

[Marty Bonnar]

Garland,
that was moderne with the added - dare I say - rather jaunty 'e'!

Are you saying that MyOpIA should actually be pronounced 'Peoria'?

fBd.

[Marty Bonnar]

PS
Someone please tell me that another group of American wits had the good sense to name a golf course, 'Presbyopia' in response to this one...

Fuzzy Blind Distance viewer.

[Garland Bayley]

PS
Someone please tell me that another group of American wits had the good sense to name a golf course, 'Presbyopia' in response to this one...

Fuzzy Blind Distance viewer.

A presbyopic person could see the prey of the hunt, whereas a myopic one couldn't. Therefore, there would be nothing unique about presbyopic hunters that would need calling attention to.

I suppose an alternative name for Myopia Hunt Club would be Unsuccessful Hunt Club.
 

[Brad Tufts]

As the legend goes, the club was founded by the four sons of the Mayor of Boston in the 1870's.  They all wore glasses....hence...Myopia.  I believe the founding date is 1872 or 1874 or so.  There is a piece of wood connected to one of the fireplaces in the clubhouse that has the founding date.  I believe this board came from the original clubhouse.

The first clubhouse the club used was located in Winchester, MA, and they moved looking for more land over which to play polo and golf.  I believe the golf course (9 holes) opened in about 1888, and held its first US Open 10 years later.

They still have 50 "hounds" on site, and have a ceremonial hunt once a year, but it's drag hunting, where the hounds follow a dragged scent around the property,which stretches far across the street from the polo field on Rte. 1A.

[Mark Bourgeois]

They told my grandmother that the crest won awards.

Crests don't win awards, people who wear them do.