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Joe Hancock

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #25 on: June 01, 2015, 09:09:26 PM »
To and Fro would work under different circumstances.....
" What the hell is the point of architecture and excellence in design if a "clever" set up trumps it all?" Peter Pallotta, June 21, 2016

"People aren't picking a side of the fairway off a tee because of a randomly internally contoured green ."  jeffwarne, February 24, 2017

GLawson

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #26 on: June 01, 2015, 09:26:52 PM »
AC/DC - they could play at the opening :)

Brad Tufts

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #27 on: June 01, 2015, 09:42:06 PM »
"Far" and "Sure"
So I jump ship in Hong Kong....

John Kavanaugh

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #28 on: June 01, 2015, 09:47:52 PM »
Izzo and Bo

Peter Pallotta

Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #29 on: June 01, 2015, 09:48:15 PM »
The Soltice and Meridian.

Peter

Don Mahaffey

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #30 on: June 01, 2015, 09:55:09 PM »
Which Way

John Kavanaugh

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #31 on: June 01, 2015, 10:01:59 PM »
Kaiser Soze

Brent Carlson

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #32 on: June 01, 2015, 10:32:40 PM »
Biting Fly

Jim Nugent

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #33 on: June 01, 2015, 11:56:22 PM »
St. Andrews


Sven Nilsen

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #34 on: June 02, 2015, 12:54:19 AM »
Double Eagle is already taken. 

The "Orthus" course doesn't really have much of a ring to it, and Cerburus had three heads.

I'd go with the "The Janus Course."
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David_Elvins

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #35 on: June 02, 2015, 01:42:45 AM »
Doak World - Forest Dunes.

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The Tom Course, by Doak
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GLawson

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #36 on: June 02, 2015, 10:39:53 AM »
The Doak Ultimatum

Michael George

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #37 on: June 02, 2015, 10:55:30 AM »
Boomerang
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Tim Martin

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #38 on: June 02, 2015, 11:45:46 AM »
Boomerang

Easily the best so far. In this vein I also like Ricochet.

BShannon

Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #39 on: June 02, 2015, 11:59:32 AM »
Biting Fly

Nicely done. Buggiest course I have ever played.

Peter Pallotta

Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #40 on: June 02, 2015, 12:06:24 PM »
Man, most of you guys are so literal and on the nose it's amazing your favourite architect isn't RTJ, and your favourite period the Dark Ages. Apparently, despite the howling and constant protests, you do in fact like everything right out in front of you.  Geez, enough of the obvious this way and that way word plays. Brad's "Far" and "Sure" is very good; and compared to the rest of you Michael's "Alpha" and "Omega" is brilliant. The best, of course, is my own -- a kind of sideways glance at reversibility, a bit ephemeral, not meaning anything specific but hinting at/suggesting something special, and rolling off the tongue quite nicely, i.e. The Solstice and The Meridian.  

Peter

If the GM is reading this, two free rounds (at the Solstice and the Meridian) and an overnight stay in between would be more than enough thanks/payment for me -- if you don't think it unreasonable.  

Bill Crane

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #41 on: June 02, 2015, 12:46:11 PM »


   DOAKAOD


 
   Literal and humorous


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Tim Bert

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #42 on: June 02, 2015, 12:55:49 PM »
I think they run more risk of the course being viewed as a gimmick if they come up with a catchy, gimmicky name. I would steer away from trying to be witty.  Personally I would cringe at many of the names being thrown around. Of course I abandoned my brief marketing career nearly 20 years ago for other pursuits so I can't claim expertise in this area.

Frank Sekulic

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #43 on: June 02, 2015, 01:06:23 PM »
The Antonym

Jud_T

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #44 on: June 02, 2015, 01:13:07 PM »
The Doak at Forest Dunes- then subtitled It Goes Both Ways
Golf is a game. We play it. Somewhere along the way we took the fun out of it and charged a premium to be punished.- - Ron Sirak

JC Jones

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #45 on: June 02, 2015, 01:15:11 PM »
It's already become a gimmick.  First, Matty G has to remind us each time on Golf Channel that it's not a gimmick and then they start with this.  It's like they are trying to copy Keiser's "build the excitement before opening" marketing but not so close people think they are copying it and then failing at both.

I get it, you are mad at the world because you are an adult caddie and few people take you seriously.

Excellent spellers usually lack any vision or common sense.

I know plenty of courses that are in the red, and they are killing it.

John Kavanaugh

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #46 on: June 02, 2015, 01:21:01 PM »
It's important to remember how stupid golfers are.  I've been a member of a few 36 hole courses and never can remember the "true" names.  Cut out the middle man and just call them Upper and Lower depending on where the 1st tee sits in relation to where a golfer checks in.


Cliff Hamm

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #47 on: June 02, 2015, 02:17:37 PM »
 In view of "it goes both ways" I suggest AC/DC

Mark Fedeli

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #48 on: June 02, 2015, 02:40:01 PM »
I agree with John and think they should go with something more subtle like the upper and the lower. It'd be even better if they didn't name the directions at all—just have signage pointing to go left or go right, or whatever it winds up being. If they want something super clever that draws on the existing elements, then it's surprising they aren't using professional marketers, as that's the kind of safe and obvious result you'd get from them.

Also, as someone who writes marketing copy for a living, them reaching out to the public doesn't offend me in the least. Good on them for trying every angle and letting true golf lovers have a potential say. Although, it's a shame they are starting with these silly constraints.
South Jersey to Brooklyn. @marrrkfedeli

Jim Franklin

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Re: Forest Dunes seeks naming help for new 2nd course
« Reply #49 on: June 02, 2015, 04:44:56 PM »
Forest Dunes West and the original Forest Dunes East.
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