What are you wearing? If it's golf apparel, there's a decent chance it has a logo on it. A course crest on the chest. A name stitched on the sleeve. A quiet signal to anyone who knows how to read it.

Like an abstract painting splattered on a canvas, the skill of golf course design is easy to dismiss. A tee box, a green, a fairway and some bunkers in between. The whole time you think, Hell, I could ...

Enough with the trees and numbers. There are tens of thousands of golf courses in the world. Most have logos, and many of those logos feature trees and numbers. Oaks are wildly popular. Conifers, too.

WILMINGTON, N.C. – Zac Blair is something of an aspiring golf course architect and takes a particular interest in course logos, including the logo for his own future design, The Buck Club, he plans to ...