Description
Royal St George’s – 1st Tee & Clubhouse
Quality golf art print from an original painting by Bill Waugh
Signed Open Edition –
Image Size: 18.5″ x 11.25″
logo does not appear on actual print
The Royal St George’s Golf Club is located in Sandwich, Kent, England and is one of the courses on The Open Championship rotation and is the only Open rota golf course to be located in South East England. It has hosted 15 Open championships, the first in 1894 when it became the first club outside Scotland to host the championship. Past champions include Collin Morikawa, Darren Clarke, Ben Curtis, Greg Norman, Sandy Lyle, Bill Rogers, Bobby Locke, Reg Whitcombe, Henry Cotton, Walter Hagen (on two occasions), Harry Vardon (on two occasions), Jack White and John Henry Taylor. It has also hosted The Amateur Championship on 14 occasions.
The club was founded by the surgeon Laidlaw Purves in 1887