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Linda Hartough
Golf landscape artist
Since focusing her skills as a landscape
painter to recreate some of the world’s
most beautiful golf holes, Linda
Hartough has become recognized as one
of golf’s leading artists. So extraordinary
and realistic is her attention to detail
that her oil paintings seem to come alive
with a clarity that surpasses the camera.

Hartough’s work has gained
international fame. She is the only artist
ever commissioned by the United States
Golf Association and the Royal and
Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews to
do the annual paintings and prints for
the U.S. Open and British Open
Championships. She has painted
prestigious golf courses from the U.S. to
Scotland to Hong Kong. Her paintings Linda Hartough’s painting of Glen View Club’s 17th hole.
are so admired that they have earned a
place on two ABC Television Golf A confirmed artist since the age of six, to create awareness and appreciation of
Specials on famous golf holes, hosted by Hartough was raised in the picturesque golf art as a valuable segment of fine art.
Jack Nicklaus. Her paintings are in the countrysides of Wilmington, Delaware, Hartough’s approach to capturing a great
collections of such famous clubs as and Louisville, Kentucky. Much of her golf hole is to spend a week or more at
Augusta National, Pine Valley and early career was spent in Chicago where, each course, taking photographs at
Laurel Valley. Hartough originals are after receiving her Fine Arts degree different times of the day to capture
also included in the private collections from the prestigious School of the Art all possible light features. She then
of Jack Nicklaus and Rees Jones. Institute of Chicago in 1970, she made determines what is important or
a living by selling her paintings locally. memorable in each view of a hole and
In 1980, she moved to South Carolina expresses it in the painting. Her memory
near Hilton Head, where she painted serves as a less objective image of the
landscapes, portraits and horses.
hole. The combination of the two
In 1984, Augusta National Golf Club provides the unique view found in
commissioned Hartough to paint the each of her paintings.
famed 13th hole, thus beginning her golf “I really enjoy painting golf landscape,”
landscape career. After an enthusiastic Hartough said. “It is some of the most
response to her work at the 1988 PGA beautiful and varied landscape in the
Merchandise Show in Orlando, Florida, world, combined with a deep historical
she focused her career entirely on golf sense of tradition that transcends time.
landscapes. Since that time, Hartough’s
work has enjoyed unparalleled status “The painting is a success when both
in the golf world while receiving elements emerge.”
international acclaim, including Golf As a capstone to her remarkable career,
Digest’s “Lifetime Achievement Award.” in 2017 Hartough was inducted into the
She is a Founding Trustee of the Low Country Golf Hall of Fame.
Academy of Golf Art, a professional
society of golf artists established in 2004
Linda Hartough at St Andrews Links golf course, Scotland
with the famous Swilcan Bridge.

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