Description
Royal St George’s 1st Tee
Quality golf art print from an original painting by Graeme Baxter
Open edition litho print
Image Size (mm): 357 x 253
Royal St George’s 1st Tee and starter huts
The Royal St George’s Golf Club is located in Sandwich, Kent, England and one of the courses on The Open Championship rotation. It 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
