The artist
A professional tattoo artist for more than a decade, used to drawing lines that can't be erased. Every course is drawn by him, one fairway at a time.
ABOUT
Drawn like it's permanent.
The 19th Line is two brothers from southern Ontario, Canada, a shared love of the quiet game, and a simple idea: a course map should be as considered as the course itself.
"...deceptively simple and endlessly complicated."
Our drawings follow the same philosophy. Minimal at first glance, but a closer look reveals every fairway, green, bunker, and tee.
THE BROTHERS
The operator
A career in operations and e-commerce, making complicated things run simply. He built the shop, the colour system and everything between the drawing table and your wall.
Why we started
Most golf course posters look the same: a busy diagram, a legend nobody reads, clip art features, and a faded parchment background meant to look old. They are often generated by software, or show a single hole from a course that has eighteen.
We wanted the opposite: the whole course, drawn by hand and made the way fine art is made. A drawing quiet enough for any room, precise enough for the people who've played the course, and yours to colour.
Made to be kept
Golf is a game for life. The courses you love stay with you: a first tee, a hole that got away, a walk up eighteen.
A premium print should also last a lifetime, and ours are made to. Each print is a museum-quality giclée on 230 gsm acid-free archival paper, in ten pigment inks rated by their manufacturer to resist fading for up to 200 years. It's printed to order by a fine-art studio in Montreal and framed, if you choose, in Canadian pine.
HOUSE RULES
- 01Always north-up. The course sits the way the land does.
- 02Composed in the orientation that fits it best: landscape or portrait, never forced.
- 03Drawn by hand from satellite and aerial imagery. Never traced from someone else's map.
- 04Only the essentials. If it doesn't help you read the course, it isn't there.
- 05One colour of line, one colour of ground. Nothing else to distract.
HOW A COURSE IS MADE
01 Research
Routing, yardages and history, checked hole by hole.
02 Drawing
Every hole drawn as a single master at full print size.
03 Colour
You choose the line and the ground: 144 colourways, all from the same master.
04 Printing
Printed one at a time, never from stock. Framed or unframed, and shipped straight to you.
IN DETAIL
The 4th at Banff Springs, Devil's Cauldron
WHERE IT HANGS
Above the desk in a home office.
Beside the screen in a simulator room.
Behind the bar at the clubhouse.
Over the bed or the couch.
A statement piece or a collectable, depending on the wall.