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Evan_Green

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Best Name for a Golf Course
« on: May 19, 2005, 12:57:50 PM »
Ok so we had a worst name for a golf course thread, how about the best name for a golf course:

I have to go with:

The Country Club

I mean it's THE Country Club- its the original- how can you beat that?

« Last Edit: May 19, 2005, 12:58:18 PM by Evan_Green »
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JESII

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2005, 12:59:04 PM »
Quote from: Evan_Green on May 19, 2005, 12:57:50 PM

The Country Club

I mean it's THE Country Club- its the original- how can you beat that?



How about The Old Course?
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Evan_Green

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2005, 01:01:17 PM »
The Old Course is quite a good one too  ;)

But still how many XYZ Country Clubs are there out there, while Brookline gets to be THE Country Club.
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JESII

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2005, 01:06:06 PM »
True, if not a bit presumtuous.
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JLahrman

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2005, 01:07:53 PM »
What about The Country Club in Pepper Pike?  Just a cheap imposter?
« Last Edit: May 19, 2005, 01:08:39 PM by JAL »
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Bill Gayne

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2005, 01:10:06 PM »
The National Golf Links of America.

I think the name fits the founder of the Club perfectly.
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Michael Moore

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #6 on: May 19, 2005, 01:11:48 PM »
Maine takes the cake on a percentage basis. Behold the annual rundown -

Grindstone Neck
Nonesuch River
Prouts Neck
Cape Arundel
Poland Springs
Kebo Valley
Northeast Harbor
Causeway Club
Mingo Springs

Those fin-de-siecle Philadephia bluebloods really left us with some classy near-perfect course names.
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Adam_F_Collins

Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2005, 01:19:53 PM »
Some of my favorites:

Merion
Seminole
Crystal Downs
Bethpage Black
Riviera
Inverness
Maidstone
Winged Foot
Westward Ho!
Interlachen
Royal County Down
Ballybunion
Turnberry
Loch Lomond
Lahinch
Walton Heath

I like unique, distinct names with charater which avoid the trap of making reference to some obvious landform (creek, hill, valley, ridge, lake, river, island) or animal ( fox, osprey, eagle, wolf, deer, lion, bear, beast, moose, cow, or lynx). It's too "just-add-water". And there's WAY too many of them.

If I built my own, I'd name it "Lothlorien".
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Michael Moore

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2005, 01:31:16 PM »
Quote from: Adam_Foster_Collins on May 19, 2005, 01:19:53 PM
I like unique, distinct names with charater which avoid the trap of making reference to some obvious landform (creek, hill, valley, ridge, lake, river, island) . . .

I guess that would rule out Crystal Downs, Royal County Down, Loch Lomond, Interlachen and Walton Heath.

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JDoyle

Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2005, 01:31:43 PM »
I love the couses named after people native to the area:

Seminole
Shinnecock
Cuscowilla (I am guessing on this one)
Kittansett
Wanamoisett

They are much better than the Tides, Pines, Forest or other generic names....for examples look anywhere in Florida.

Recent favorite, hands down - Friar's Head.

Twisted Gun is also excellent:  http://www.twistedgungolf.com/
« Last Edit: May 19, 2005, 01:34:37 PM by Jonathan Doyle »
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mike_malone

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2005, 01:35:43 PM »
 Jonathan, We have Aronimink.
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Adam_F_Collins

Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2005, 01:39:59 PM »
Quote from: Michael Moore on May 19, 2005, 01:31:16 PM
Quote from: Adam_Foster_Collins on May 19, 2005, 01:19:53 PM
I like unique, distinct names with charater which avoid the trap of making reference to some obvious landform (creek, hill, valley, ridge, lake, river, island) . . .
I guess that would rule out Crystal Downs, Royal County Down, Loch Lomond, Interlachen and Walton Heath.

I guess I knew that was coming. But I thought by putting them in the list, you'd see what I meant. To clarify - I mean using the common North American words, like "lake" (not Loch) or "river", or "valley", or "ridge" etc.
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Paul_Lorenzen

Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2005, 01:46:13 PM »
The Black
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Michael Moore

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2005, 01:51:44 PM »
This is a serious question.

What do you think is behind the sports-centric memorialization of our vanquished native foes? Course names, teams of all sports on every level, etc.

Is it a desire to further humiliate the defeated?

A desire to honor the defeated?

Guilt on the part of the victors? Something else?

I am not offended by this practice, nor do I have a closet full of Chief Wahoo branded Cleveland Indians gear. I do not know enough about history to generalize about the relations between conquerer and conquered.
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Adam_F_Collins

Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2005, 02:01:48 PM »
Quote from: cary lichtenstein on May 19, 2005, 01:55:57 PM
When Trump gets to 100 courses, will he buy Golf Digest and revise the categories to include only courses with Waterfalls?

Well we'll have the list of the "Trump 100 Golf Courses in the World"
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mike_malone

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2005, 02:10:36 PM »
Michael Moore,
     How the Indian name came to be used should be a factor in evaluating it. From what I was told, Aronimink was the password to get onto the West Philadelphia Golf Club. When the club went to the burbs the name went with it. Even if that's not true, it is a good story.


     I am uncomfortable with using ethnic names that assume certain characteristics, such as, Indians are warlike.

    "The Fighting Irish" seems okay, because if the "fighting" weren't there one would not attach much connotation to "Irish".


    The Fighting Quakers is insane to me. ???
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Mike Nuzzo

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2005, 02:15:58 PM »
Carthage Club
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Old Sandwich
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Allan Hutton

Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #17 on: May 19, 2005, 02:25:29 PM »
The New Course - 110 years old and counting... ;D
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Rob_Waldron

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« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2005, 02:30:58 PM »
How about Settindown Creek outside of Atlanta. The only thing better than the name are the miniature rocking chairs used for tee markers.
« Last Edit: May 20, 2005, 09:09:50 AM by Rob_Waldron »
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Joel_Stewart

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2005, 02:31:48 PM »
Quote from: Evan_Green on May 19, 2005, 12:57:50 PM

The Country Club

I mean it's THE Country Club- its the original- how can you beat that?

The Golf Club
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Tony_Chapman

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2005, 02:47:45 PM »
I almost like anything Mike Strantz does:

Tobacco Road, Royal New Kent, Caledona Fish Club, True Blue

All of those are pretty good, in my opinion.
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Mark_Rowlinson

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2005, 02:50:20 PM »
Dyke
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Tony_Chapman

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2005, 03:02:09 PM »
Two more:

The Lightning Bug Course at Solitude

Addison and Leah's Playground (for Mr. Gracely)
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Evan Fleisher

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2005, 04:08:32 PM »
I know someone said they did not like courses that start with "THE" on the worst thread, but how about this one...

The Bourne (pronounced "burn" after the creeks found on Scottish links courses)

http://www.golfillinois.com/departments/coursereviews/the-bourne-review-646.htm
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George Pazin

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Re:Best Name for a Golf Course
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2005, 04:30:57 PM »
I've always been partial to Rye and Ganton - they suggest a certain stoutness to me. Plus Rye has the whole wry thing going for it as well. I also like when people refer to UK courses by location rather than name, like Sandwich.

Domestically I'm a big fan of the name Sheep Ranch.

I have my own name for my own Sheep Ranch that I hope to build someday, but I am not divulging it, for fear of suffering the same fate as my namesake George on Seinfeld. :)
« Last Edit: May 19, 2005, 04:33:30 PM by George Pazin »
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