Worst name for a golf course

[Rob_Waldron]

Mike

Based on your reasoning I guess my club, Old York Road should seek a name change immediately. The club has not been on Old York Road since it moved out of Jenkintown and away from Old York Road to Tennis Avenue in Spring House in 1962.

[mike_malone]

 Rob,
    I agree. What's the attachment to a silly road name?

[Mark_Rowlinson]

Dyke

[peter_p]

Anything with "at".

[THuckaby2]

redanman - good question.  I think it works in Chicago.  That is, when I think Chicago public golf, I think of working stiffs talking with accents and calling each other dubs or worse.  Same goes for Boston.  Gosh I don't mean to offend residents of either GREAT city - both of which I love - but that's just the first thing that comes to mind... Chicago and Boston sports fans, talking with those accents, using words like "dubs" or worse.  So a course called dubsdread is great by me.

BUT... if you put it in Westchester county, or near Hillsborough near here or Beverly Hills or something, all of a sudden it sounds really stupid.

Oh well, that's my weird take.

TH

[Kyle Harris]

Mike Cirba has his opinion on this one, but I'll him to post it.

How about Coxsackie Golf Course in Coxsackie, NY?

[Rob_Waldron]

Mayday

I am proposing to the Board of Directors at Old York Road that the name of the club be change to Spring House Downs!

Or should it be The Club at Spring House?

or to follow the lead of FOX TV simply "HOUSE"

[rgkeller]

The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club

[A.G._Crockett]

The Frog at the Georgian Resort and Convention Center.

aka, The Frog

(I actually like the course.)

[Tom Dunne]

I nominate:

The Cliffs at Possum Kingdom Lake.

(it's a real place....google it!  )

[Mike_Cirba]

As mentioned, it's usually a good idea to avoid any course with a capital "The", or the word "at" anywhere within the name.  

Ex. "The Country Club of The Poconos at Big Ridge"

Also it's best to eschew inland courses with "links" in the name, as well as public courses that claim to be anything "National"

[Brad Tufts]

The Bog

To me, the name says, mosquitoes, aerial golf, laying up, wetland hazarding, and being pissed I paid money to play afterward.

Unfortunately, I will probably never play there because of the name.

-Brad

[Lester George]

AeroPines

Scenic View

[Jeff_Brauer]

Here in DFW, we have ZBoaz and Ditto Golf Courses, apparently named for the original farmers who owned the land.

How about the Sausage, Cuff, or Tiddley Links?

[grandwazo]

I'll nominate my home course...."Muttontown", located in East Norwich, New York, named after the town bordering East Norwich.....what the h** is a town named after Mutton?

If I have anything to say about it, as soon as KBM is done renovating the course, the plan is to change the name to "12 Chimneys", naming the course after the mansion (our clubhouse) that sits on the property that just happens to have 12 Chimneys.  The logo will be of the house and the aforementioned chimneys, or at least as many as we can fit in to something that not's too obstrusive.

listen, i can dream, can't i?

[Mark_Rowlinson]

A few fecund European names:

Alcaidesa (Bin Laden's home course?)
El Prat (prattish name)
Gloria Golf (I know we worship the game but this is ridiculous)
Hook (better than a shank, I suppose)
Bled (Japanese for a loaf)
Leidschendamse Leeuwenbergh (Double Dutch)
La Margherita (cheese and tomatoes?)
Matilde di Canossa (married one of the Borgias, if I remember correctly)
Oddafellowa (yes, we know all about them)
Stutgarter Solitude (no fourballs, no foursomes, not even singles)
Baden-Baden (say it slowly, loudly and enough times and they'll understand eventually)
St Barbara's Royal Dortmund (I thought that was a hospital)
Bad Lippspringe (poor ventriloquist?)
Le Gouvernour (the Godfather to you and me)
Bitche (son of a?)
Lery Poses (we've heard all about Lery, too)
Champ de Bataille (I was brought up to believe that golf was a gentleman's sport)
Pornic (an adult's club)
Bondues (ditto)
Ajoncs d'Or (with gold knobs)
Odder (and odder)
Inter-Mol (international trading in strumpets?)
Bishopshire (I've heard of rent boys but this is ridiculous)
Hollandbush (the Dutch don't go in for razors much, do they?)
Haggs Castle (not much chance of a passing knight coming to the rescue)
Kilcock (ouch!)
The Black Bush (I bet you wouldn't be allowed that name in the US)
Beaverstown (here we go again)
Old Head (you hadn't thought of that, had you?)
The Knock Club (if you're looking for them you can find them almost anywhere)
Gay Hill (which did not have that implication when it was founded in 1913)
Western Gailes (and there is no shelter from them)
Effingham (damning 'em, too)
Diss (it's good to know I'll be able to play somewhere when I depart this world for another, lower, one)
Brailes (too many blind shots)
Newbiggin (a Mulligan?)
Feltwell (as it left the club, but it still sliced into the gorse bushes)
Ealing (Lady to bus conductor, 'Is this Ealing?'  'No, madam, it still looks rather sore to me.')
Bury (I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
Abridge (too far)
Crook (it's too obvious)
Cockermouth (standard scratch 69?)
Reddish Vale (but has tinges of green and blue, too)
Peover (yes, it really does exist)

[mike_beene]

Tom,The Cliffs is at least a very descriptive name.The dropoffs are much higher than 8 at Pebble to use a familiar example.It is cart golf and a little severe,but it is spectacular.Just way off the beaten path.

[Adam_F_Collins]

Cheers, Mark. Your list is so bad, it's great.

[PThomas]

Dave  -- don't forget George Dunne Golf course--- and I think he is even still alive, so it's not even a "memorial"

and what the hell does "Pasatiempo" stand for anyway???

[Peter Galea]

Pasatiempo is Spanish for "pastime".  Apropos if you ask me.

[Mike_Duffy]

A couple of unfortunately named layouts come to mind:

1. Cape Shank (also various spellings of Schank and Schanke) on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
2. Cokup (pronounced "cockup") on the outskirts of Foshan in Southern China.