[Thomas Dai]

Nominations?


Atb

[Jon Cavalier]

Gotta be The Virtues, no?

[John Connolly]

The Concession Golf Club

[Jim_Kennedy]

Contraband Bayou Golf Club, Lake Charles, La.

[Doug Bolls]

Trump Doral

[John McCarthy]

Crystal Tree is terrible name. 

[Matthew Rose]

I've always thought World Woods was kind of awkward.

[Ian Mackenzie]

Streamsong


How does a resort in rural Florida that has two links like golf courses (soon to be three) sell itself to the market with the word "song" in it?

Heard it was created by an agency in NYC that used focus groups for testing.

[Steve Burrows]

There's a muni in Indianapolis called Sarah Shank Golf Course, or as the locals call it, "Shank."  It's named after the wife of a former mayor of the city during the early part of the 20th century, so the naming was hardly intentional (I have no idea when the word "shank" first entered into common parlance with respect to golf), but it is nevertheless amusing.

[PCCraig]

How about Lil' Augusta Golf Course outside Cleveland?

[Joe Zucker]

How about Lil' Augusta Golf Course outside Cleveland?

You speak of the famed Hilliard Lakes Golf Course.  Everyone i know has always wondered why it says that on the bottom of their sign because there is nothing Augusta-like about that place.

[BHoover]

How about Lil' Augusta Golf Course outside Cleveland?

How do I not know about this??

[Matt Frey, PGA]

Just about any facility with that starts with "The" and has an "at" used as a connector preposition. Bonus points for not using words like "Golf Club," "Country Club," or "Golf Course."


A completely made up example: "The Meadows at Skyfall."

[Jeff Shelman]

I find public courses that use "National" in the name to be odd. We have many in this part of the world because of the notoriety of Hazeltine National. Among them:


Minnesota National
Mississippi National
Montgomery National
Riverwood National
Superior National
Lakeview National
St. Croix National


Most of them are not nearly as impressive as their names suggest.


These are two actual real golf courses in Minnesota:



Farmers Golf and Health Club
Stalker Lake Golf Course Bar & Grill

[Chris_Blakely]

Gotta go with National Golf Links (of South Charleston Ohio that is)

[E P Purmort]

"The Challenge at Manele" is utterly cringe inducing.

[Joe_Tucholski]

Gotta be The Virtues, no?

Asia has lots of bad names.  Here are some:
 Thailand has Best Ocean Golf Club (you would think it's on the ocean...it's not) and my favorite because it sounds great Bang-Poo Country Club

- Like the virtues above Chinese cultural names don't work in the west.  They also have other problems.  Some examples: 
1) They love to put seemingly prestigious US things in the name like Nanjing Harvard International Golf Club, The Masters Golf & Country Club  or Long Island Golf & Country Club. 
2) They use terms that don't really fit like Agile Golf & Country Club or Jade Dragon Snow Mountain Golf Club
3) We talk about exclusionary clubs but in China I wonder if you have to really be a Tycoon to join Shenzhen Tycoon Golf Club (my guess is yes) at least at Shenzhen Noble Merchant Golf Club they have moral expectations in addition to their financial requirements
4) Ninbo Delson Green World Golf Club - I'd guess it is overwatered in a country that has a real water problem
5) Names that I don't know what they mean but sound great like Dandong Wulong International Golf Club

[Will Peterson]

Streamsong


How does a resort in rural Florida that has two links like golf courses (soon to be three) sell itself to the market with the word "song" in it?

Heard it was created by an agency in NYC that used focus groups for testing.

It was an Orlando agency, and they did use focus groups and surveys.  My girlfriend helped with the testing.  They came up with a few names and logos, and then tested them.  Apparently the name came from the idea that the stream let people know there was fishing and the song was the birds that were there hunting or the song of nature. They wanted to speak to the natural elements that were at the property. The groups were made up of frequent resort users, but they didn't need to have any relationship to golf.  Golf wasn't a consideration in the naming process.  I agree it's not a good name.

[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.

[Chris_Blakely]

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!

[Jon Cavalier]

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.

[Niall C]

I'm still waiting for someone to nominate Stoatin Brae. That's a an absolute shocker. It may well turn out to be a very fine golf course but that name would have you running for the hills (by means of the brae, obviously).

Niall

[MCirba]

The Country Club of the Poconos at Big Ridge. Thankfully it has been taken over by the township who have shortened the name. Unfortunately they haven't changed the golf course.

[MCirba]

Wasn't there also a PB Dye course called The Gauntlet? I also recall something by Hale Irwin on the East Coast as part of a two golf course development that was equally horrid.

If forced to vote however my choice would be The Virtues. What the hell were they thinking?

[Jeff_Brauer]

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?

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