Best golf course names

Hi! Blue monster is a stupid name for a golf course, so what's your favourite?

Mine's whistling straits, i feel it really captures the essence of that course.

Also love quail hollow, spyglass hill and putterham meadows(a municipal course in boston).

Watched some today and from the high cameras it should be called green monster probaly the plankton!
Bethpage black always sounds like a toughy,Anything golf and country club is usually a dissapointment

Mahogany run, in St Thomas, and it's a great course

Cape kidnappers also sounds awesome, and looks it from the photos!

Matelot - great call, Cape Kidnappers is incredible! Looking over the cliff edges, or as close as I was brave enough to get is stunning. Amazing course!
How about Titirangi, superb course in NZ, architect Dr A Mackenzie.

Bernard Darwin used to call Royal Worlington and Newmarket "the sacred nine". I always thought that sounded pretty good.

The London Golf Club. Makes it sound like the only course for 7M people.

My claim to fame about mahogany run. Tiger was in St Thomas and I was on the course the same time as he was, al be it I was on about hole 2 and he was on about 16 or 17. Weird, as he was totally left on his own. Must have been great release for him not being hassled I suppose. It has a Bermuda triangle of 3 holes, 15,16 and 17 that if you parred you won a box of balls I think. No balls for me, tiger probably picked up 3 sleeves!!!

We also have a course close to us known at ' The sh*thole', not its ral name of course but sums it up to a tee!!

Not a course but the 11th hole on Gullane No 1 used to be called Thucket Knowe. That always amused me especially as it was a semi blind drive.

super_realist wrote:The London Golf Club. Makes it sound like the only course for 7M people.

Even stranger that its not even in London!

Simon's Golf Club - probably named after the owner? I wonder when Trump will build one called The Donald?
Valderama - always reminds me of the Colombian footballer.
Winged Foot - Isn't that just what a golf course looks like?

Be careful what you wish for, pedro . . . . . .

I reckon he'll re-name "the one of many arguments" the Auld Don to get his first name in and to trick Americans as to it's authenticity and heritage.

What's in a name?

Apparently quite a lot. I know of several clubs in my neck of the woods which have "rebranded" themselves.

Hatfield is now Essendon
Elstree is now Radlett Park
Stockley Park is now Stockly Pines

Do the new names sound better? Does it make a difference as long as the course is any good?

matelot golfer wrote:Mahogany run, in St Thomas, and it's a great course

I'm sorry but that doesn't sound like a great name to me. Be honest, you only mentioned it so you could slip in your Tiger story later on

I think there's a course somewhere simply called The Golf Club.

Somebody should name a course "The Office". Then when your boss / wife / partner rings you to ask where you are you could give them an honest answer

Stockley pines? Surely they will never get pine trees to grow on that rubbish tip theres all sorts buried under there.

Stockley Pines? Sounds like a Chicago 1950's Private Investigator.

Be fair Dyna, they probably imported two, six foot, baby pine trees to make the name accuarate.

raycastleunited wrote:

matelot golfer wrote:Mahogany run, in St Thomas, and it's a great course

I'm sorry but that doesn't sound like a great name to me. Be honest, you only mentioned it so you could slip in your Tiger story later on

also, mahogany doesnt run, that name sounds more like a piece of furniture than a golf course.

Maybe it was the juxtaposition between Mahogany (a wood) Nine Chins Surname (Woods) Wooden personality and where he often drives the ball (Woods)

That's a lot of wood in there, and we've not even started on the black book yet

Are you not board of this yet SR?

Do you have some kind of stake in Eldritch's business?

What wood it take for you to give it a rest? We know you think he's a plank.

<NB -Other cr@p wood based wordplay is available>

You're teaking the p!ss with those puns Roller.

Sorry.

Just trying to bolsa support for Tiger.

I flat pack refuse to believe that Roller.

Woods may not be a poplar guy but i bet he's oak-kay once you get to know him.

Well he's more poplar than you make out.

Sorry Inco you were faster.

I take that bark

Hadnt twigged it til u said roller. No big deal

I see Nine Chins ex has offered him an olive branch. Wonder how long it will be before she "leaves" again.

Thats enough fir today i think.

We're only taking the pith.

Yew are all barking up the wrong tree with those wooden analogies. Super just hates the man, thinks he's a son of a beech.

Glad it's knot a problem.

We should probably stop this stupid chain, saw as it makes me.

Yeah we'll be in lumber with the mods if we don't get back on topic.

I can't take any sycamore

I maple out of this thread now. I'm stumped.

Let's keep going. I bet Super we'd make it to close of play. If we do he willow me a pint.

No actually, let's stop.

The Old Course must have been a bit of a silly name when there were no others or was it "the Course"?

Lumber..jack it in. I pine for the good old days of a Two Ronnies sketch.


Anyway, to spruce this thread up, I've always liked the names Skibo Castle, Watson's Glen and Druid's Glen - don't know why but they seem so more evocative of golf to me than Bethpage or even Pebble Beach.

I'm bamboozled!

Pretty good.

Roller_Coaster wrote:I reckon he'll re-name "the one of many arguments" the Auld Don to get his first name in and to trick Americans as to it's authenticity and heritage.

When you visit a newly opened burger joint or diner in the US they'll always have "the world famous this" or a "their signature that". And people buy it.

pedro wrote:

Roller_Coaster wrote:I reckon he'll re-name "the one of many arguments" the Auld Don to get his first name in and to trick Americans as to it's authenticity and heritage.

When you visit a newly opened burger joint or diner in the US they'll always have "the world famous this" or a "their signature that". And people buy it.

I remember when Goldie Lookin' Chain came out their debut LP was called "Greatest Hits".

It's all about marketing. You gotta ride the wave while it lasts. (And for The Donald, you gotta comb the wave while it lasts...)

Listen you lot. I'm sick of you making a play on my 'mahogany run' course. Your all a bunch of saps!

Stop it or I'll call the copse !

Wonder if the black book beauties/beasts ever get a splinter when Tiger's at the 'elm of his boat, or acorn perhaps?
Edit: As reports suggest he was at the 'elm getting a woody with Lindsey Vonn all week during the Cadillac on his yacht moored ten miles from the course. Branching out . . . .