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.

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.

Course logos didn't appear on golf shirts until the 1970s. Before then it was a radical idea, almost unthinkable, for a brand to embroider anything other than its most valuable marketing asset—its own ...

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