St. Louis Country Club

Ladue, MO

Like many clubs with early origins before 1900 that did not begin with golf as an activity, St. Louis Country Club has a logo better suited for what it began with, polo.  The club was founded in 1892 without golf but following a relocation in 1895 golf was added with a modest 9-hole course.  The club would move again and commission C.B. Macdonald and Seth Raynor to construct an 18-hole course after the purchase of the land in 1913.  The horseshoes and riding crop intertwined to form the S and L is stately and sleek.  It’s a fantastic logo that is rarely seen but with its rare Macdonald roots outside the eastern corridor of the U.S. and also being the site of a heartbreaking short miss on a playoff by Sam Snead in the 1947 U.S. Open, St. Louis C.C. is a sneaky historic place with a great logo and conversation starter.