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.

In the early 1990s, Oakmont Country Club—host of the 2025 U.S. Open, its 15th men's or women's major championship and revered as one of the nation’s greatest courses—as covered in trees. Each hole was ...

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