Royal Dornoch Paintings and Prints

Golf at Dornoch, in the Scottish Highlands north of Inverness, is recorded as early as 1616, making it one of the oldest golfing places in the world. The club was founded in 1877, and in 1886 Old Tom Morris came north from St Andrews to lay out a full course. He is said to have remarked that there could not be better ground for golf. The club was granted its royal title in 1906.

The Championship Course lies along the shore of the Dornoch Firth, on a shelf of links land between the beach and a ridge of gorse. Its greens are its signature: many sit on natural plateaus, with slopes falling away on several sides, so that a slightly weak or wayward approach runs off into hollows. The pattern traveled. Donald Ross was born in Dornoch, learned the game there and served as the club's professional before emigrating to the United States in 1899, and the raised, crowned greens he later built at Pinehurst and elsewhere trace back to this links.

Because it is so far north, Dornoch has never hosted The Open, but it has hosted the Amateur Championship, in 1985, along with many Scottish national events. Its reputation among golfers has grown steadily, and it is now regularly ranked among the finest courses in the world.

Linda Hartough has painted the 17th, known as Valley, with the coast in view from its high tee. It is offered in two editions.

The collection holds 2 Royal Dornoch prints, available as canvas giclées and open edition digital prints, in limited editions, artist proofs and open editions, in sizes from 11"x14" to 21"x36".