"Road"

St Andrews 17th Road is a gouttelette limited edition print that comes from a series of 19 paintings by Peter Munro. 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 seventeenth hole is a very long par 4, covering 461 yards from the Medal Tee. Considered the most difficult hole on the course, it takes its name from the old turnpike road marking the hole’s southern boundary which has destroyed many championship rounds and from the formidable “Road” bunker. It is perhaps the most famous hole in golf.

Each print is hand numbered and accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist. The certificate is numbered to match the print.