A crest for a golf, sailing or members’ club

Clubs wear crests

Golf clubs, sailing clubs, rowing clubs and members’ clubs have worn crests for as long as they have existed. The crest goes on the blazer pocket, the tie, the burgee, the scorecard and the honours board. A new club with a well-drawn crest looks as if it has a history from the first season.

Pierce Sailing Club

Illustrative scene made from a real Fable design; not a photograph of a delivered order.

Preview a crest for your club

Pierce Sailing Club’s red arms show a black swan. The crest heads the autumn regatta programme and the membership card on a teak table above a harbour full of boats.

The design up close

A design made with Fable Heraldry: a decorative emblem, not a grant of arms.

See the design

A black swan, three pearls and a silver crescent on red, with a swan crest above the helmet. The swan is the club’s, the pearls and crescent belong to the sea.

Golf, sailing and more

Crossed clubs, a flag on a green, an oak from the course for golf. An anchor, a swan, a gull or a ship for sailing. Oars for rowing. A key or a lamp for a members’ club in town. Add the year of founding on a scroll.

Where it works hardest

Embroidery is unforgiving: fine detail disappears on a blazer badge. Ask for a simplified version for embroidery and keep the full crest for print: programmes, membership cards, certificates, invitations to the annual dinner.

Honours boards and trophies

A crest painted at the head of an honours board or engraved on a cup is where it becomes history. Keep a master file of the full crest and a simplified one, so engravers, embroiderers and printers all start from the same drawing.

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Start your club’s crest

Fable draws a crest from your club’s name and story, free to preview. The Business pack gives you commercial use in writing, brand files for the web and a stationery collection with letterhead, cards, certificates, invitations and notepads. A Fable crest is a decorative emblem, not a grant of arms.