This, of course, is a variant of the established tradition in real estate development, namely to name a place after what you had to destroy in order to build it Fresh Meadows, Green Acres, Pristine Pines. In the case of golf courses, it isn't always the developer who did the slaughtering. Often, settlement and build-up are the result of aggressive expansion undertaken by governments. That, for example, helps account for the many Native American names of golf courses today Seminole, Wannamoisett, Wampanoag, Metacomet. Job mobility and career shifting, however, are far more common today in an era of corporate downsizing and mergers.
Territory is an unsteady guide to the contemporary link between culture and locale.
It was OK back in the early 1930s when Augusta National coined a phrase that captured both the scope of its membership and the seasonal nature of its affiliation. Galloway National, Naples National, Atlanta National, Hudson National, Orange County National, South Carolina National, New Jersey National, Cape Cod National. The device seems to be out of control along the East Coast. Scotland Run National. Any hopes of purity in the language were dispensed with in 1919 at the opening of Pebble Beach Golf Links.