Linda Hartough has been recognized as the foremost artist of golf. She has focused her skills in recreating landscapes and has successfully recreated some of the most beautiful golf courses of this world. A child prodigy who has been painting since the age of six, Linda is an American. Brought up in the picturesque locales of American countryside of Wilmington, Delaware and Kentucky, Linda captures the natural beauty so realistically, that her oil paintings come alive and project golf courses with their entire splendor. Her attention to details is legendary and her paintings have a clarity which rivals photographs captured by camera.

Capturing this beauty for eternity on canvas is not an easy task. Linda Hartough has done just this and won herself a place in the hearts of golf enthusiasts world over. Generally golf courses are beautifully landscaped. Many even will say that golf courses are extraordinarily beautiful. Covered with lush green grass, the undulating landscape, the water bodies, the sandy patches in between make a golf course an exotic place and a delight to spend an afternoon.

Hartough has unique approach to capturing the beauty of a golf hole. She spends several days at a golf hole capturing the picture of the landscape several times a day through a camera in different lighting conditions and observes the finer points of the location. She then captures the golf hole using her visual observation skill and the photographs on canvas, making it come alive.

Linda Hartough is now internationally acclaimed for her golf paintings. She has the distinction of being the only artist to have ever been commissioned by both United States Golf Association and Royal and ancient Golf club of St Andrews for annual official US Open and British Open championships. She was featured in two ABC television shows hosted by the legendary Jack Nicklaus. Her paintings are in many private collections around the world and in some of the famous golf clubs such as: Augusta National, Pine Valley, Pine Hurst, Laurel Valley etc.

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