"Short"

St. Andrews 8th "Short" 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 striking physical features, including 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 eighth hole is a par 3 and covers 166 yards from the Medal Tee. Although the origin of its name, “Short”, will be obvious, it is a notoriously difficult hole on which to obtain a birdie, particularly in high wind.