Description
St Andrews – a Panorama
by Peter Munro
Edition Info – A Limited Edition Gouttelette Reproduction of 600 numbered copies, supplied with a certificate signed by the artist.
image size – 18×36 ins / 46×90 cm
paper size – 24×42 ins / 60×105 cms
Golf is now played in almost every country but there is no doubt that the ‘Home of Golf’ is at St Andrews. A crude form of the sport was played on the site as early as the mid 1400s and organised golf from 1754, when twenty-two “Noblemen and Gentlemen” formed the Society of St Andrews Golfers, which became the Royal and Ancient Golf Club in 1834. There are several courses on the links at St Andrews but the most famous is undoubtedly The Old Course, which hosted the British Open for the 27th time in 2005. The Old Course is notorious for its huge double greens, where the outward and inward holes both make use of the same putting surface, and its 112 bunkers, amongst them some of the most famous in golf. The nineteenth picture in Peter Munro’s depiction of each of the eighteen holes of the Old Course is a painting of perhaps the best-known view of St Andrews, with the famous Clubhouse visible to the left, the Old Course Hotel towards the right and the notorious Swilken Burn in the foreground.
