Visceral Response

This photo is from the British Open and was published in Golf Digest in 2012.

Golf is a game of lines all around and this picture shows it perfectly. The grand stands are a line, the bunkers are lined up. The ball is even perfectly placed just outside the line of the golfers shadow. The club line is also on the perfect plain or line. The rough in front of the green is a line and so is the line of spectators behind the green.

Form and shape are all around in this picture. The depth of the bunkers, the volume of the stands, and the position of the golfer.

Feelings can felt by anyone that like to watch or play golf. I love this picture. This is such a hard shot, go long and your short sided and dead leave it short and your in the thickest rough in the world.

I also love the color in this picture. Golf fans can immediately tell its the British Open. In America we play golf on course that are green, very green with trees and water. Over the "pond" in the home of golf to save money their courses are played with the dead looking grass that gets baked out at the end of the day, that they don't have to water as much. Look at the different colors, the light green and dark green of the fairway, the light and dark green of the rough and the dark sky. I also love that you can tell the spectators are sitting in silence.