Painted Course
First light on a links hole: dew on the fairway, a red flag on the green between the dunes, the sea behind.

Measured. Painted.

You could walk your home course with your eyes closed and you know every hole by its yardage before you'd think to describe its colours. We make your long walk even more beautiful so you can hang it on your wall forever.

Draw My Course Paint My Photo

Film made by an image model.

A course print without the yards is a picture of grass.

The yardage is all that matters.

A yardage book open on a wooden bench at sunrise, a pencil across its page of hole drawings and figures.
Made by an image model.
Skip the hole

The 2nd at the Ocean Course. 552 yd.

  1. 1. Par 5, 552 yd The tee. Par 5, 552 yd along the line to the green.
  2. 2. Water 68 yd Along the line: water beside it at 68 yd. From the water, 484 yd to the green.
  3. 3. Carry 194 yd Along the line: water across it at 163 yd, 194 yd to carry; a bunker beside it at 175 yd. From the water, 389 yd to the green.
  4. 4. Water 233 yd Along the line: water beside it at 233 yd. From the water, 319 yd to the green.
  5. 5. Water 342 yd Along the line: water beside it at 342 yd; a bunker beside it at 365 yd. From the water, 210 yd to the green.
  6. 6. Bunker 470 yd Along the line: a bunker beside it at 470 yd. From the bunker, 82 yd to the green.
  7. 7. Green 28 yd deep The green, 28 yd deep along the line, with 2 bunkers and water beside it.
Paint it in

What goes on the print

The Eleven Hands

One hole, eleven ways: the 2nd at the Ocean Course on Kiawah Island, a par 5 that bends left across the water.

We draw the first five from the course's own map. The other six are painted by an image model, and any of the eleven can paint your own photo.

The Masters

Send us your own photo and we will make it a masterpiece, painted by an image model in the hand you choose.

The photograph: a bunker with a rake in it and a flag on the green at Bundoran, the town and a flat-topped mountain behind. The painting: the same bunker, flag and town in short strokes of orange, green and violet under a flaming evening sky.
Left of the line, the photograph. Right of it, the painting.

After Claude Monet

Impressionist

Light broken into short strokes, and the green becomes the brightest thing on the hole. The bunker and the flag stay where the photographer stood at Bundoran.

Painted from a photograph by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The photograph: the 10th green at Congressional across a pond, two bunkers in front and trees and the clubhouse behind. The painting: the same green turned into overlapping planes of ochre, grey and olive, the flag standing in the middle.
Left of the line, the photograph. Right of it, the painting.

After Picasso and Braque

Cubist

The 10th green at Congressional, folded into planes and seen from several sides at once, as analytic Cubism took a still life apart between 1909 and 1912. The flag keeps its place in every plane.

Painted from a photograph by Carl Lindberg, CC BY 2.5.

The photograph: a long pale bunker curving through the fairway at Ashgrove, gum trees on a hillside behind. The painting: the same bunker and hillside built from small dots of pure colour, the flag at the right edge.
Left of the line, the photograph. Right of it, the painting.

After Georges Seurat

Pointillist

Dots of pure colour that mix in your eye from three paces. Ashgrove's 10th, built the way Seurat built the grass of La Grande Jatte; stand back and the bunker comes together.

Painted from a photograph by Ashgrove DJM, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Our Aerial drawing of the 2nd at the Ocean Course, Kiawah Island: fairways, sand and water from the survey, seen from above. The painting: the same hole in Prussian blue and cream, with rows of breaking waves around the fairways and the line of play still drawn.
Left of the line, our Aerial drawing. Right of it, the painting.

After Katsushika Hokusai

Woodblock

Flat colour and a carved line, and the sea stands up like a wave beside the green. Under the waves at the Ocean Course's 2nd, the line of play still runs tee to green.

Painted over our Aerial drawing of the hole, from its OpenStreetMap survey (ODbL).

The photograph: the 10th green at Congressional across a pond, two bunkers in front and trees and the clubhouse behind. The painting: the same green in pastel lime and pink, the pond streaked rose, the trees in red, orange and blue.
Left of the line, the photograph. Right of it, the painting.

After the Fauves of 1905

Fauve

Colour straight from the tube, the way the Fauves painted Collioure in the summer of 1905. Congressional's 10th keeps its pond, its two bunkers and its flag; only the colour goes wild.

Painted from a photograph by Carl Lindberg, CC BY 2.5.

The photograph: a long pale bunker curving through the fairway at Ashgrove, gum trees on a hillside behind. The painting: the same bunker outlined in pink and violet light, the trees strung with green lights under a purple night sky.
Left of the line, the photograph. Right of it, the painting.

After no one

Neon

Ashgrove's 10th after dark, every edge drawn in glowing tube. The bunker, the flag and the hillside sit exactly where the photographer saw them.

Painted from a photograph by Ashgrove DJM, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Paint My Photo

The Receipts

Three numbers from the courses on this site.

  • Presidio's back nine, by its scorecard. We measure every hole tee to green, the way the card does, because the card is official.

  • Every ridge, valley and dune on an Aerial print comes from the ground's own height, read every 4 m.

  • 2,174 holes, each measured from tee to green, on the 123 courses you'll find on this site.

How It's Measured, in Six Questions

Where do the yards come from?

From the course itself, tee to green along the line of play.

The volunteers who map a course for OpenStreetMap draw one line for each hole, tee to green. We measure that line to the nearest yard, on the same model of the earth your GPS uses.

Why is hole 2 shorter than the card?

Because the map measured it from a different tee.

A card prints a figure for each set of tees, and the map holds one line per hole. On our example course, 15 of 18 holes land within 15 yards of the back tees, and the table below shows all 18.

What if my course isn't mapped?

We'll show you what's there, and write to you when it can be printed.

The studio counts the holes the map holds before it shows a price. Below nine numbered holes we won't print it. How a course gets drawn.

What reaches your server?

Nothing, until you order.

Your search goes straight to OpenStreetMap. We receive the course, your choices and your words when you order, and we keep that survey so a reprint matches the first.

Is the print to scale?

Yes, with a scale bar in yards and an arrow to true north.

The course is drawn flat around its own centre, which moves no point by more than a few centimetres, and the north arrow turns with the drawing.

What does the print say about itself?

Where the map came from, and when.

One line in the margin credits OpenStreetMap and dates the survey, so you can check it.

Presidio Golf Course, Against Its Own Card

Our figure for each hole beside the club's scorecard (presidiogolf.com, read 11 October 2026). A hole is within tolerance when it lands within 15 yards or 5% of a card figure, whichever is larger.

HoleOursBlackWhiteParMatches
13733723494Black
24294724355White tee
33673853654Black
41271301183Black
53063072984Black
63913883614Black
72262191843Black
83573783564White tee
95255244935Black
105115014865Black
114234183874Black
124554534424Black
131991801693Neither: 19 yd long
143453443264Black
151761711473Black
163853823644Black
173363503434Black
185085064805Black

On Four Walls

Each as a canvas over an 84 inch sofa, to scale. The rooms are generated pictures; the course on the wall is the one in the studio below.

The Studio

Your course, drawn while you watch

Every hole numbered at its tee, its yards beside it

Example coursePresidio Golf Course, San Francisco, drawn from OpenStreetMap as of 11 October 2026. Find yours to replace it.

What OpenStreetMap Holds

Numbered holes
18
Greens
20
Fairways
19
Bunkers
48
Water
0
Newest edit
29 May 2026

Enough to print: 18 numbered holes, each measured along its own line.

The card, measured: Presidio Golf Course
Hole123456789101112131415161718
Yards373429367127306391226357525511423455199345176385336508
Par454344345544343445

Yards from tee to green. A blank par is one the map doesn't hold yet.

  1. The Piece

  2. The Style

  3. The Colour

  4. The Day

    Your words cost nothing extra: the line, the date, the round and the ace are part of the print.

  5. The Round
  6. The Print
  7. The Size
  8. Ship To

    Postage at cost, and nothing more.

  9. Have a Gift Code?

    It's checked when you press Order This Print, before anything is charged. A Painted gift card goes in Stripe's own code box at checkout.

    — plus shipping

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The Sheets and the Layers

The Nineteenth Hole

Three more ways to hang a hole on a wall.

Courses We've Drawn

The World's Best Courses

Old Macdonald, Sheep Ranch, Pine Valley Golf Club and more of the courses the world rankings keep naming, each drawn from its own survey and then painted from that drawing by an image model.

See Every Painting

What We Hold Ourselves To

  1. Every Yard Measured

    We measure each hole along its own surveyed line, so you can check the print against the card.

  2. Nothing Invented

    We never guess a par or draw a fairway nobody mapped, so a blank on the print is the survey's.

  3. Every Difference Shown

    We show where our yards and the club's card part ways, so you know why a hole reads short.

  4. Painted in Plain Sight

    We say which pictures an image model painted, every time, so you always know what you're buying.

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