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Portfolio: Tom Shaw

A celebration of the British sporting photographer's finest work from on and off the course

St andrews

Open Secrets

Finding new angles on the Old Course

The Price We Pay

The Price We Pay

Playing through the wreckage of an unimaginable loss in the Scottish backcountry

Royal Dornoch

Hard Forged

Dornoch’s harsh winters and unrelenting gorse shaped one of the world’s great courses and a friendship found only in golf

1954: General view of Dutch Harrison's golf bag along with many other golf bags are shown circa 1954. (Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images

Half Full

Taking some clubs out of the bag might be the answer to your biggest golf questions

St. Andrews ladies' putting club

The Grandes Dames of the Himalayas

Age be damned: The St. Andrews Ladies’ Putting Club is still thriving

Tom Shaw

A Day at the Dunvegan

A snapshot of the random and beautiful collisions that occur at one of the game’s iconic watering holes

Landfall

Welcome to Montrose Golf Links, the front line in the battle against the game's most frightening enemy: climate change

Spanish golfer Seve Ballesteros on the 17th green during a Ryder Cup match at The Belfry, Warwickshire, 15th September 1985.

Dormie?

Theories abound on the term’s origin, including one from Scotland’s most famous queen

Colf Lessons

Colf Lessons

The facts of our game’s history are clear—as a Scottish fog

Landscape shot. Photo by Kevin Markham.

The Tao of Garth

Learning some of golf’s greatest lessons from one of its worst players

Alan McPherson

Alan McPherson

One man's impossible quest to play every course in Scotland—even the secret ones.

Askernish. Photo by Jamie Gibson

What Lies Beneath the Machair

A spontaneous pilgrimage to the long-lost course of Askernish—the forgotten Tom Morris design that came back from the dead

St. Andrews and the British Open

“St. Andrews and the British Open”

From a 1984 Open Championship review