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John Shimp

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Best courses; worst names or logos?
« on: August 29, 2008, 10:18:56 PM »
Harkening back to the the ridiculous name of the pretty, D minor Spinal Tap song called "Lick My Love Pump", what are the best golf courses with the worst names?  Or at least good golf courses with awful name?  Bad logos on good courses might also be fun?

I'm trying anything to get folks off of the Obama speech thread that is deep onto screen 12 at this point.....
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Jon Spaulding

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Re: Lick my love pump
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2008, 10:58:45 PM »
It's a musical trilogy, really.....using a simple algorithm of course quality divided by logo crappiness:

World Woods - perhaps a perfect score here....the logo is that bad
Lawsonia
Spyglass
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Matt_Cohn

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Re: Lick my love pump
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2008, 12:32:39 AM »
StoneCreek, the Golf Club
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John Shimp

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2008, 11:23:04 AM »
Shivas,
I've always liked pasatiempo name and logo.  The whole sombrero, sleepy latino thing is cool. 

I have also always gotten a charge out of country club names like "passing the time" or Idle Hour; anything that refers to laziness.
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Matthew Hunt

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2008, 11:40:32 AM »
National Golf Links of America.

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Eric Smith

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2008, 12:12:03 PM »
The Revere at Anthem Golf Club - Las Vegas

Danny Noonan: I'm playing golf in Las Vegas too.
Chuck Schick: Really? You playing Shadow Creek?
Danny Noonan: No, The Revere at...
Chuck Schick: Where??
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Ian_L

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2008, 12:29:50 PM »
Esmeralda Golf Course's logo is a picture of a horse playing golf.  Can't find the logo unfortunately...
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Scott Stambaugh

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #7 on: August 30, 2008, 12:45:50 PM »
A few course names that used to bother me-

-The Golf Club Scottsdale

-The Course Wente Vineyards

It's almost as if they're saying "we're just a bit better than everyone else, we can eliminate prepositions and disregard proper English." (although I think Wente has added 'at' recently.)

That used to bother me, now it's kind of grown on me.  I'm waiting for a club to take it one step further- no name, just a logo.  Like The Artist Formerly Known as Prince did in the 90's.

Scott
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Kyle Henderson

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #8 on: August 30, 2008, 01:03:11 PM »
Cast my vote for the TPC San francisco Bay @ Stonebrae. ::)
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Mark Manuel

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #9 on: August 30, 2008, 07:27:18 PM »
I am going to say Tobacco Road is a bad name and a bad logo.

Just mentioning that course should spur some discussion regardless of the topic.
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Matt_Cohn

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2008, 07:35:06 PM »
the AT&T Canyons course.
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John Moore II

Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2008, 08:02:00 PM »
Quote from: Mark Manuel on August 30, 2008, 07:27:18 PM
I am going to say Tobacco Road is a bad name and a bad logo.

Just mentioning that course should spur some discussion regardless of the topic.

I suppose it should be mentioned that Tobacco Road is the name of this entire region of North Carolina, because of all the old tobacco companies and farms in the area. If that logo is bad, then Tot Hill Farm and Bulls Bay must have bad logo's as well, they are nearly the same as Tobacco Road.
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Kirk Stewart

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2008, 08:35:25 PM »
Nice job crapping on this Gentlemens thread. Well done...

I'll nominate anything with a "Trump".
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Sean_A

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2008, 08:44:14 PM »
Shivas is right.  Pasa's is awful and look cheap. 

I detest Enniscrone's - that rising sun deal gives me a headache.

I don't like the bird thing for Brora's logo either, but on the other hand, Huntercombe's bird deal is growing on me, but its no where near as good as Machrihanish's! 

But the prize for the worst logo for a good course is Michigan's.  Its a picture of a green with a pin.  It is one of the cheapest, nastiest thing I have come across and it is especially harsh because they created with the renovations.  Dreadful. 

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cary lichtenstein

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2008, 08:53:25 PM »
Dismal River

And I'll agree, anything with Trump
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Doug Bolls

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2008, 08:59:42 PM »
Mark - While I think Tobacco Road is an OK name, I agree about the logo - and, if you don't like that one, you certainly won't like what they did down the road at Tot Hill Farm.
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Anthony Fowler

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #16 on: August 30, 2008, 11:10:02 PM »
Quote from: Shivas on August 30, 2008, 09:33:36 AM
I actually think Pasatiempo has both a terrible name and a terrible logo.

I definitely agree with you here on the logo.  I talked to a member about it and he actually said something along the lines of:

"You'd never believe this but a lot of people actually think it's racist."

When I politely told him that I could imagine that, he defended it by pointing out that Mexican people really do take naps during the day. 

I'll second NGLA and offer TCC as being horrible names for courses even though they are really old.

I never liked the logo at Kittansett.  It looks too much like the Shell Gas logo.
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Jon Wiggett

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #17 on: August 31, 2008, 03:03:55 AM »
What about 'Big Fish'?
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John Shimp

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #18 on: August 31, 2008, 01:44:24 PM »
A place I like but feel like the logo and motif don't fit the area or course is Bull's Bay.  The body of water north of charleston is called bulls bay so that fits but the whole western thing and the big steer head are odd to me. 

I know Strantz was a horseman and maverick and it was a lot about him which i understand.
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Chris_Clouser

Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #19 on: August 31, 2008, 01:46:24 PM »
Purgatory located in Noblesville, Indiana.  It is one of the few things at the course that I would change.  It must have been a marketing guy that came up with it... ::)
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Jeff_Stettner

Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #20 on: August 31, 2008, 02:45:45 PM »
Murder Rock, the scene of the infamous John Daly shirtless interview.
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J_ Crisham

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2008, 05:23:55 PM »
Whistling Straits is a good track but somewhat goofy logo-Looks kind of look the owner on a bad hairday! ;)          Jack
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mike_beene

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2008, 06:31:01 PM »
The Golf Club of Dallas. The Country Club of Jackson. These are not universities.
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Chuck Brown

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Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2008, 07:39:43 PM »
As far as "nicknames" go, the worst attempt at a nickname in history was pointed out by Geoff Shackelford on his blog -- it was Ron Rosaforte's discussion of "The Foot", a/k/a Winged Foot.
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Sam Morrow

Re: Best courses; worst names or logos?
« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2008, 08:09:31 PM »
Quote from: mike_beene on August 31, 2008, 06:31:01 PM
The Golf Club of Dallas. The Country Club of Jackson. These are not universities.

It will always be Oak Cliff Country Club to me!
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