What Is The Best Golf Course Name?

[EmperorPenguin]

This is a rather silly topic.  Forget everything about the golf course.  The quality of the course is irrelevant in this thread.  Tell me the best name of a golf course you know.  The name of the course is so cool because it has such a good ring to it.  Here is my pick.

 

Cruden Bay

 

Does anyone know of any better name of a golf course?  I cannot think of any.

[deadsolid...shank]

In northern Colorado, we have The Mad Russian. 

[MtlJeff]

We have a course in Quebec that has giant red sand  waster bunkers kind of shaped like flames on many of the holes and is called "Le Diable" which translates to simply "The Devil"

 

that's pretty cool IMO....here is an aerial view

 

[Argonne69]

Purgatory outside of Indy sums it up pretty nicely.

 

'Always liked Dancing Rabbit and Mammoth Dunes.

 

[wobgon]

My home course is built in area where iron or was mined and a couple holes have water hazards that were iron ore mining pits....Tight course requiring good iron play....The course is called iron masters .

[TiScape]

3 hours ago, wobgon said:

My home course is built in area where iron or was mined and a couple holes have water hazards that were iron ore mining pits....Tight course requiring good iron play....The course is called iron masters .

Or what??? 😂 

[charli]

5 hours ago, TiScape said:

Or what??? 😂 

Ore maybe? 

[TiScape]

39 minutes ago, charli said:

Ore maybe? 

Ore for sure! Haha

[Hickory4ever]

A course in our neck of the woods is the Devil’s Pulpit.

[NCLancer]

I always like "The Witch"!  Too bad it's now closed

 

[Avidswampthing66]

My favorites are is Scioto and Pasatiempo

 

BUT...we have one down here in the deep south called Contraband Bayou and thats sick

[grm24]

1 hour ago, Hickory4ever said:

A course in our neck of the woods is the Devil’s Pulpit.

Does the Devil's Paintbrush course still exist?

[Hickory4ever]

3 minutes ago, grm24 said:

Does the Devil's Paintbrush course still exist?

Yes. It is a beautiful links style course, rated in the top 10 courses in Canada by Scoregolf.

[TwistedSister]

Dubsdread in  LeMont, IL   Former home of the Western Open!

[ThinkingPlus]

Arroyo del Oso in ABQ, NM

 

Or as I referred to it...Bear Ditch.

[grm24]

13 minutes ago, Hickory4ever said:

Yes. It is a beautiful links style course, rated in the top 10 courses in Canada by Scoregolf.

Thanks. I recall seeing picture tours of both of the Devil's courses some time back. They both look like amazing courses to play.

[Hickory4ever]

22 minutes ago, grm24 said:

Thanks. I recall seeing picture tours of both of the Devil's courses some time back. They both look like amazing courses to play.

 
They are top notch golf courses. They were started by the inventors of the game Trivial Pursuit. They are both part of the same private golf course (The Pulpit Club) now.

[Cliffy2020]

Three Jack National is gaining popularity in the KC area.

[EmperorPenguin]

8 hours ago, Cliffy2020 said:

Three Jack National is gaining popularity in the KC area.

Greens must be diabolical.

[touch]

Colorado Springs, CO.

 

 

 

[JungleJimbo]

On 3/3/2023 at 9:38 PM, Argonne69 said:

Purgatory outside of Indy sums it up pretty nicely.

 

'Always liked Dancing Rabbit and Mammoth Dunes.

 

 

On 2/28/2023 at 1:32 PM, EmperorPenguin said:

This is a rather silly topic.  Forget everything about the golf course.  The quality of the course is irrelevant in this thread.  Tell me the best name of a golf course you know.  The name of the course is so cool because it has such a good ring to it.  Here is my pick.

 

Cruden Bay

 

Does anyone know of any better name of a golf course?  I cannot think of any.

The HSBC Womens' World Championship (LPGA event) is being held this week in Singapore, at Sentosa Golf Club. 

 

Located off the southern coast of Singapore, the 500-hectare island we know as Sentosa today, used to be called Pulau Blakang Mati from as far back as the 1600s. Its name translates to “the island behind which lies death”, possibly a result of brutal pirate battles of yesteryear. ...

 

Stories about Bugis pirates plundering, looting and killing the inhabitants of the island   and Japanese soldiers slaughtering locals on its beaches during the Japanese occupation from 1942-1945 surround the origins of the name.

Sources (beware; some gory details): 

https://imaginedmalaysia.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/an-erased-history-of-pulau-belakang-mati/ 

 

https://www.roots.gov.sg/stories-landing/stories/sentosa/story#:~:text=be called Pulau-,Blakang,-Mati from as 

Edited March 4, 2023 by JungleJimbo

[Argonne69]

En-Joie has a clever name, but has a better course mascot. 

 

 

[sunbeltgolfer]

Ballyhack

[SilverBullets]

On 3/3/2023 at 6:38 AM, Argonne69 said:

Purgatory outside of Indy sums it up pretty nicely.

 

'Always liked Dancing Rabbit and Mammoth Dunes.

 

 Purgatory was my immediate thought

[Nvd13]

The Dream, West Branch, MI, and across the street from it is a course called the Nightmare. 

[GHIN n Juice]