What's in a name?

[George Pazin]

Phil, we used to have a little executive type 9 holer near me called Green Valley which was always known as Death Valley, due to a preponderance of nearly overlapping holes.

[Jud_T]

Big Beaver Creek                                Piketon, OH
Golf Club at Johnson Ranch                 Queen Creek, AZ
Mud Run Golf Course                          Akron, OH
Sarah Shank Golf Course                     Indianapolis, IN
Cow Pasture Golf                                Rainbow City, AZ
Dead Horse Lake Golf Course               Knoxville, TN
Bad Course @ Hombre Golf Club           Panama City Beach, FL

[Andrew Summerell]

I've always been interested in French Lick, but that's just me.

It's a shame the towns Intercourse & Blue Balls in Pennsylvania don't share a course.

[Tony_Muldoon]

I've never been much enthused about a round at Dismal River. No, Jolly Creek would have been way much better.

FBD.

Precisely.  Does Dismal mean the same in Americanese as it does in English?


BTW A great Scotsman died today and the world has a little less joy in it. RIP Bill McClaren.

[Bill_McBride]

Congratulations Bill McBride....you are a YABB God!

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[Mark Chaplin]

Sadly The.... and .....National are over used here as well.

We tend to find a decent name then forget the name and call the course by it's location!

At my current rate it'll take me 37.12 years to become a YaBB God

[Will MacEwen]

I've never been much enthused about a round at Dismal River. No, Jolly Creek would have been way much better.

FBD.

Precisely.  Does Dismal mean the same in Americanese as it does in English?


BTW A great Scotsman died today and the world has a little less joy in it. RIP Bill McClaren.

One of the all time best commentators in any sport.  He was truly a pleasure.

[Jim_Kennedy]

Andrew,
There is a state park at 3380 Beaver Rd.,  Union, Ky. and if they ever build a golf course it will probably be packed. Matter of fact, they could build a course that would meet TD's earlier request:  "Can any body think of a course where a catchy name has helped overcome a banal design?"



They do have a link to the golf courses in the state park system:  http://parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/bb/

[JohnV]

Pumpkin Ridge is named after the ridge that sits at the back end of the course.  I liked that name since it was really a place.  At first the two courses were named East and West.  I liked that.  But then some marketing person decided to get cutsey and the next thing you know we had Witch Hollow and Ghost Creek and all the silly trappings that went with that.

[Jim_Kennedy]

Back in the late 60s, early 70s, some friends had a band they named "The Random Concept".

I think it'd be a great name for a golf course, although it's too late to have Desmond Muirhead design it.     


 
 
 

[Bob Jenkins]

Furry Creek, on the highway from Vancouver to Whistler, is often rightfully trashed, and not just on this site. It has been known as "Funny Creek", "Fuzzy Creek" among other names as it is just too strange and goofy.

[Sean Leary]

The Members Club at Aldarra.

Ugh. We voted a couple years ago whether to take the prefix out of our name and it was 50-50 so no go. Aldarra or Aldarra Farms by itself would have been much better. And it isn't even original (Four Streams).

[Tim Leahy]

 About the only names I object to are those which steal directly from another course -- e.g. "Prestwick" in Myrtle Beach -- or are too long -- "The Golf Club at blah blah". 

Indeed, I much preferred "Stonebrae" to "The Tournament Players Club East Bay @ Stonebrae."

I would add that the word "National" should be banned from monikers for all future courses not built with federal tax revenues, with the possible exception of "McBride National."

I thought it was "The TPC of San Francisco Bay" , did they change it again?

Another good one is one of the courses for this years King's Putter tourney, Coyote Moon in Truckee. When it opened everyone said what a stupid name for a course! So after a year or so they changed it to something like Pine Mountain.  Then when someone would say something about Pine Mountain golf club everyone would say "Oh, you mean Coyote Moon!", so they chainged it back!

[Kevin Pallier]

Is there something to it? Do names affect our perception of a course before we know enough to make judgement?

Scott

One thing I would love to do if ever I get back down that way is to play the "Augusta" course - in WA - an example of the the ultimate antithesis of golf course clubs perhaps ?

http://www.augustagolfclub.org.au/

[Matt Day]

Is there something to it? Do names affect our perception of a course before we know enough to make judgement?

Scott

One thing I would love to do if ever I get back down that way is to play the "Augusta" course - in WA - an example of the the ultimate antithesis of golf course clubs perhaps ?

http://www.augustagolfclub.org.au/

Kev
its a good  country course with sand greens on some pretty good land, well worth a visit if your down that way....and not a magnolia in site

[Roger Wolfe]

And it isn't even original (Four Streams).

I have two good friends who are members at Four Streams.  We ridicule them constantly.  "Members Club at... "
How pretentious.  Sorry that happened to Aldarra.

[D_Malley]

How about this one

Emanon Golf Club

can anyone guess what it means

[Jud_T]

Roger,

I hear the locals refer to it affectionately as Swordfight...

[Sean Leary]

Roger,

Exactly. There was a method to the madness as to why it was named that but it does come off as incredibly pretentious. And everything about the rest of the club goes out of its way to not be pretentious which is the silly thing. Not sure if Four Streams came first or not but who cares. Everyone just refers to it as Aldarra anyway.

[Tim Nugent]

I would like to sell naming rights to Effin Vodka,  then I could play at the Effiin Club

[Roger Wolfe]

Roger,

I hear the locals refer to it affectionately as Swordfight...

... or Sausage Fest.

[Jim_Kennedy]

,yellaM_D

!ysae ooT

[Mike Cirba]

How about this one

Emanon Golf Club

can anyone guess what it means

D_Malley,

Ah...the infamous "NoName" backwards Golf Club!! 

I played there in High School, and can even tell you that the first nine was designed by Felix Serafin/Gerard Zezza in 1956, with John Hetro laying out the wilder second nine in 1974.

Lord, no wonder I didn't have girlfriends back then!