[MCirba]

The word "at" as a connector between two disparate concepts is particularly egregious, particularly since you know that the word "The" is always in there as well.. Just came across The Coves at Round Mountain.

[Jim_Coleman]

   I was not a fan of Dye Fore at Casa de Campo.  I suggested Mouth of the Snake (as it sits above the mouth of the snakelike Chavon River).  Then they'd have had Teeth of the Dog and Mouth of the Snake.

[JJShanley]

Foulpointe.

[MCirba]

Yeah, Jim....Dye Fore is an awful play on words.

[Mark Provenzano]

"The Challenge at Manele" is utterly cringe inducing.

They have since retired that name, along with its cousin 'The Experience at Koele."
http://www.fourseasons.com/koele/golf/koele_golf_course/

My first thought was also The Virtues. Just blah.

[Kalen Braley]

CaddyShack got it right....BushWood!  Love it!

[Howard Riefs]

John Paul Newport with a solid column on the topic:


http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111904060604576574621372158568

[Charlie_Bell]

The Links at Union Vale is not in the running, as it's just a generic name, in the town of Union Vale.  No problem, really.


Still, whenever it pops into mind, I can't help thinking:
1)  A LINKS course that's 50 miles from the nearest salt water??, and
2)  Union VALE, for a course that scrapes the sky??  It's set atop a stretch of beautiful rural New York highlands, with sweeping vistas in every direction.  The antithesis of a vale.

[Nigel Islam]

National Golf Links outside of Columbus, OH
The Pearl Club in Owensboro, KY. (TPC)
Pine Valley in Ky
Dead Horse Lake Golf Course in Knoxville
Totally agree on Sarah Shank too.

I guess we agree on your first one!

Oops, sorry Chris

[JJShanley]

CaddyShack got it right....BushWood!  Love it!

Never thought of it that way.  And I went to Catholic school as well.  I feel ashamed.

[Joe Hancock]

The Dream and The Nightmare....

[Ronald Montesano]

National Golf Links outside of Columbus, OH
The Pearl Club in Owensboro, KY. (TPC)
Pine Valley in Ky
Dead Horse Lake Golf Course in Knoxville
Totally agree on Sarah Shank too.

I would play a course called Dead Horse Lake. I'd expect a tremendous logo.

I would want it combined with the Lady in the Lake...the horse could be holding up a golf club while on its back, four hooves to the sky.

[Mark Kiely]

Champions Club at the Retreat (Corona, CA)

[Matt Frey, PGA]

Rife with Comic Potential....

Lanny Wadkins once suggested Lucky Sperm Club.....and my old boss pushed for Tiddly Links.  A never off the ground project in Hawaii years ago was going to use the local name of Puni....so we dubbed it Puni Muni.    I would often suggest XX Intergalactic" just to one up the Nationals.  But, none of those turned out to be real courses.

Sort of OT, but we have one project now, just named "Tempest."  What do you think?   Matt ought to like it, they specifically omitted the "The."  I don't mind the sound of it, but it makes me wonder if we are entering a new era of course naming?

Some of the fancy names started coming in the go go 1990's, because the two nature words seemed stale, a la "Pine Valley," Oak Hills, etc.  I gather they felt they did need something newer sounding, just like railroads went from "Baltimore and Ohio" to CSX or BNSF and design firms went from Smith and Jones to  SJ Design Group

Is naming a course something other that traditional nature names (although I guess Tempest is nature, although it could be human nature......) a new fad or trend at hand?

I don't mind "Tempest." In fact, I don't mind minimalist names at all. I keep all the courses I have played on a spreadsheet and I drop all of the "suffixes" (e.g. Golf Club, Golf & Country Club, etc.) for one main reason: When you refer to Yale, you just say "Yale" not "The Course at Yale."

[David Davis]

As much as I hate to say it, one place many of us love.....Dismal River - is not exactly a marketeers first choice from a branding perspective.


Under the names that are on the difficult side to promote out of the country we have a few:


Koninklijke Haagsche Golf en Country Club (Royal Hague to everyone else)
Golfsociëteit de Lage Vuursche


I'd offer any non Dutch speaking person a beer who could pronounce either of them perfectly.

[Tom Bacsanyi]

The Greg Mastronia Golf Courses at Hyland Hills. 

Stands alone as both the worst name in Colorado and easily the worst course.  Has all the tools for this thread.

[MCirba]

Does anyone else hate the prefix "Country Club of"?   

It's as bad as "University of"   

[Matt Frey, PGA]

Absolutely, Mike, but it's still preferable to the use of "The," which reminds me of the nuts that make a point to say that they graduated from THE Ohio State University.  Give me a break.

[Kyle Henderson]

The Tournament Players Club East San Francisco Bay at Stonebrae.

[Rich Goodale]

The Nairn

[Jon Wiggett]

Any course with a name start with 'The Links at....'

[BHoover]

The Classic at Madden's doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

[Jim Tang]

Sentry World.

[Matthew Rose]

The Greg Mastronia Golf Courses at Hyland Hills. 

Stands alone as both the worst name in Colorado and easily the worst course.  Has all the tools for this thread.

Ah yes, wondering how I missed this one considering how often I play it. Possibly the worst 18th hole ever created.

[John Kavanaugh]

The Greg Mastronia Golf Courses at Hyland Hills. 

Stands alone as both the worst name in Colorado and easily the worst course.  Has all the tools for this thread.

Any course named after its founder is an ego driven bowl of swill. Must be a Colorado thing.

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