There are tens of thousands of golf courses in the world. Most have logos. Some of those logos are much better than the rest.
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Enough with trees and numbers. There are tens of thousands of golf courses in the world. Most have logos, and many of them LOGO Trees and numbers appear.
OAKS are extremely popular. The conifers, too. Use them yourself, or combine them with the date the club was founded, and you have a logo yourself.
But is it a good logo? Generic is more likely.
This is just a man’s opinion, and I recently shared it in a conversation with Simon Holt, my co-worker GolfNew Podcast New Weekly focused on golf trips. I THINK Simon agreed.
Not that we were living in the negative. Our goal was to highlight the positives by naming our favorite club logos and explaining why we like them.
One rule we set for is that a golf logo should not be obviously Golf-y. You want it to be something you can wear the course among non-players without encountering as a dork. Attractive to the eyes? Safe this is essential. But the subtlety also counts. Quirky operates up to a point, provided it is not forced. Things go sideways quickly when a logo tries hard.
In Simon’s opinion, courses in the US do a better job with logos than their counterparts in the UK, where he says, many logos are so great, “you can see them from the moon” . This is another rule. Understanding makes a good fashion statement.
But these are comprehensive instructions. What about examples?
Among my favorite logos is the wild onion of Ohoopee match club. A shiny, idiosyncratic -drawn idiosyncratic image that attracts its unique character from its sieges (the club itself sits in the place with Vidalia onions) it meets the criteria written above. I also dig the logo in Hobby -A boy in a sombrero, taking a sleep-while catching the Santa Cruz, Calif’s return vibe. The image is subliminal counter-inuitive, as well, as Pasatiemic is not a course you want to sleep. A good logo has the power to make you think.
Spouting’s Maidstone whale is another of my scams. Yes, there is a number, the date when the club was founded. But – did I mention? – Got a spouting whale! And then there is a sleepy sleepy golf club, with his headless cavalry. This logo, inspired by local legend, houses in your memory, and you need to love it: Ichabod Crane in the brain.
Simon came up with a list of him. Fishers Island was in it. So was the leg with wings and – come to think, better to hear it directly from it. You can listen to our entire logo conversation hereAnd allocate to other destination golf episodes wherever you get your podcast. And if you have a question or a comment for us about golf and travel, you can email us at destinationolfpodcast@gmail.com.
