When you look at a painting of a golf course, it is important to see it as a golfer sees it. “I am the proud owner of several paintings by Linda Hartough,” says golf legend Jack Nicklaus, “and each time I look at one I see something new. Linda has a true feel for a golf course.”

“Whenever you see a Linda Hartough golf course rendering,” said the late, renowned, golf-course designer, Robert Trent Jones, Sr., “you have to resist the urge to grab a club and drop a ball. Linda has the unique ability to capture, in a single solitary perspective, the very essence of the course itself.”

An interesting fate for a person who didn’t grow up sharing her father’s passion for playing the sport. But Linda Hartough is an artist first and foremost. She instinctively knew that something as complex and beloved as a golf course would have to be an exceptional landscape, with an attention to detail and clarity that surpasses a camera.

Hartough approaches each work with an understanding but objective eye. The results have amde her one of the popular and prominent artists in the field. In fact, she is the only artist ever commissioned by both the United States Golf Association and the Championship Committe of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews to create the official paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and British Open championships.

A veritable championship tournament of her work was released as Hallowed Ground: Golf’s Greatest Places, a book with text by Jaime Diaz, published by The Greenwich Workshop Press.

Coastal South Carolina

Published by
The Greenwich Workshop
since 1995

Preferred medium: oil

The 7th Hole, Pebble Beach Golf Links

“It’s a challenge to make a great painting and still depict a golfer’s favorite scene, but my goal is to make works of art that transcend the scene depicted. When you look at a course, you have to see how a golfer plays it, then see it as a landscape.”

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