Worst name for a golf course

[RE Blanks]

I have to go with Bogie Buster Golf Club - Richmond, KY

not a good members course.  

[Adam_F_Collins]

That is bad.

I have to say, this is a big pet peeve of mine. I find that this is one of the most common weaknesses in golf course design - to do all of that work and planning and then cap it off with a flimsy name.

There are just WAY to many Lakes, Ridges, Creeks, and above all - WAY WAY too many "Links"!!!!

Frigging "The Links at What-The-Hell-Ever" Please STOP!

They're never links anyway.

Golf Course Names should have character. Just pick a Single Malt scotch name -

 

[astavrides]

I nominate Wetlands in MD and Freeway in NJ

[Adam_F_Collins]

I've got to say,

The Lynx at Kingswood Park is pretty lame.

As if "Links" isn't bad enough...

 

[Bill Gayne]

Anything "National" with only two exceptions. Also The Weed Course at Cannon Ridge. Named after Bobby Weed.

[mike_malone]

 Three Little Bakers (named after Dinner Theatre on site). Started out as Pike Creek Valley.

[Adam_F_Collins]

Creek Valley!?!

Isn't that a double negative? Ouch.

[mike_malone]

 Maybe it was only Pike Creek--sorry.

[cary lichtenstein]

Raptor Bay

[RE Blanks]

Another good one is Brown Acres Golf Club , Chattanooga,TN
Course is split in half by I 75.  

[BCrosby]

Tooting Bec.

A NLE course once located near London.

The name is so bad, that I like it.

Bob

[Dan Kelly]

Anything named after a corporation: Firestone CC, NCR CC, SentryWorld (doubly bad, because of that mid-word cap), Clorox Hills...

A good company-course name: 3M's Tartan Park.

[Rob_Waldron]

Actually Three Little Bakers were named after the owners who were.........three bakers!

I nominate for worst name  (As well as accompanying logo) World Woods Golf Club. Fortunately the two golf courses are wonderful!

[Phil_the_Author]

It is hard to find an area with more "outstandingly-named" golf courses than Massachussets.

Here are a few that Tillinghast visited:

Duixbury Yacht Club (yes, it is a GOLF club)
United Shoe Machinery GC
Purpoodoch Willowdale GC
College Highway CC

[Jeff Goldman]

It begins and ends with "The Bull at Pinehurst Farms".  Pretty good course, though.

[mike_malone]

 Growing up in Wilmington, De. I was very familiar with  the Three Little Bakers name. They were almost like Tastykakes as a name in Philly.
       I joined Pike Creek just out of college. I think it was $200 dues.

    Sometime after that Three Little Bakers bought the course and converted the clubhouse for use as a dinner theatre. I always thought it was odd to see those big buses at the course.

[BCrosby]

I love "Brown Acres".

On the same theme, how about:

"Low Hills"
"Limited View"
"Cement Culvert"

Bob

[ChasLawler]

Raccoon International in Granville, Ohio

http://www.raccooninternational.com

[Adam_F_Collins]

It might be nice if clubs took a little more 'honest' approach in their naming. That way we might have a better idea of what we're getting into...

How about

"Titan Long"
"The Frown at Los Ball"
"The Great Boar"
"Hitten Hope"
"Steep Fees Golf Club"
"Airstrip Acres"
"Big Name Fields"

I already feel better.

[Steve Okula]

Ouch on Bogie Busters-sounds very white trash.  Like using the word 'golf' as a verb.

The word "golf" can be a verb in correctly spoken English.

[Bob_Huntley]

I am not sure if a place name could be considered the worst name for a course, but the Bulawayo G.C. in Zimbabwe might take the cake. The name "Bulawayo" means "place of slaughter", from when the warlike Matabele ruled there in the 19th century.

I played in the Matabeleland Amateur some years ago, the place lived up to its name.

[THuckaby2]

I am not sure if a place name could be considered the worst name for a course, but the Bulawayo G.C. in Zimbabwe might take the cake. The name "Bulawayo" means "place of slaughter", from when the warlike Matabele ruled there in the 19th century.

I played in the Matabeleland Amateur some years ago, the place lived up to its name.

 
We all seem to have our Bulawayos.  I have quite a few.  Bayonet is one.  Spyglass Hill.  Winged Foot-West.  Lots of courses leave me a bloody mess.

But many thanks to Mr. Huntley for adding a new golf term.  Forever from this point forward, a course that kicks my ass is gonna be a bulawayo.

BTW, that "Lynx" course has to be the stupidest name I've yet heard... that is unless said felines roam the premises... and even then it wouldn't save it that much....

[Jason Topp]

5 by 80 - named after 5 small towns located near Interstate 80 in Iowa.  It may be the worst course I have played as well (although I won $85 worth of beef in a tournament there when I was a kid).

Anything that begins with "The"

Radcliffe Friendly Fairways, Radcliffe Iowa (might be the second worst course I have played).

[David Sneddon]

It might be nice if clubs took a little more 'honest' approach in their naming. That way we might have a better idea of what we're getting into...

How about

"Titan Long"
"The Frown at Los Ball"
"The Great Boar"
"Hitten Hope"
"Steep Fees Golf Club"
"Airstrip Acres"
"Big Name Fields"

I already feel better.

Or rather than the pretensious "Artisans Club", just call it "Plumber's Crack"
 

[mike_malone]

 What about names of courses that have relocated but still use the old place name. In Philly we have "Overbrook" which is a section of the city. It is now in Bryn Mawr.

     BTW I think Merion may be in Haverford.Just checked---one side of course is Haverford; the other Ardmore. The clubhouse is in Haverford. How can it be a Doak 10 when the name is suspect?