US Open Back on the West Coast

It has only been a couple years since The US Open was held on the West Coast... but the past six months of hyper-detailed news concerning Tiger's personal issues (and his return to competitive golf) somehow has made the 2008 US Open held at Torrey Pines seems much further in the past, a bit like looking through a telescope from the wrong end.

In a couple short weeks the best players from around the world will be teeing it up at the Pebble Beach Golf Links for the 2010 US Open Championship, including the still reigning #1 in the world Tiger Woods. Considering that the last time the US Open was held at Pebble (back in 2000) Tiger decimated the field, it would be an error to count him out in this upcoming major championship. No matter what his play may be in the other tournaments leading up to the big event on the Monterey Peninsula, at some point Tiger will be "back" -and what better showcase for him than at Pebble.

This newest print depicts a bird's-eye-view of the famous links course seen below through the clouds and mist. The previous print is a view of a windswept hole and a lone cypress.

These new golf art prints by artist Steven Anthony Salerno are available in limited editions at sasgolf.com

PEBBLE -latest print release

In June of this year, the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links will host the US Open Championship for a fifth time. (1972 winner Jack Nicklaus, 1982 winner Tom Watson, 1992 winner Tom Kite, 2000 winner Tiger Woods) The print image shown here is my tribute to the championship event being held at Pebble and depicts an idealized windswept green along the Monterey Peninsula coastline, the flagstick bending in the breeze, and a wide view of gathering clouds above the Pacific Ocean. A lone cypress tree becomes the image's focal point.

I created the entire image on a digital drawing tablet with vector-based Adobe Illustrator software. Even though it has beautiful soft blends of colors and gradations, it still has a crisp and minimal graphic look, quite like lithographic travel posters from the 1930's and '40's.

This print has three different type version choices: one with bold red & tan type, the other with simpler black & white type... or a third option is just the image alone without any type.

This new golf art print by artist Steven Anthony Salerno is available in a limited edition at sasgolf.com