Golf art and artist biography: Steven Anthony Salerno

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PGATOUR.COM contributing artist Steven Anthony Salerno, who created the original art images which appeared in the Player Spotlight feature, is a professional graphic artist of nearly 30 years.

At age 18, he won his home state of Vermont's Junior Amateur Championship. As a young man was a registered apprentice in the PGA for a brief time in the late 1980s as an assistant professional at The Yale Golf Club and also at Racebrook CC, both in Connecticut.

He is a graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he lives and works. His original golf art images are now available as signed, limited edition art prints on his golf art gallery site. Please visit SASgolf.com.

Original artwork by Steven Anthony Salerno

About the artwork

Steven Anthony Salerno explains how he created the Tiger Woods artwork for THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola: "I created this image of Tiger Woods with a simple, bold, brush drawing (using black ink on watercolor paper) accentuating his powerful swing. I then scanned the drawing into the computer, adding in digital color and a background photo of a stormy sky. I made it even more ominous looking by deepening the values, to give it an overall feeling of a dream-like vision. My final intention was for the image to be how Tiger appears in the nightmares of other professional golfers as Tiger dominates the scene year after year."

Salerno's original artwork for PGATOUR.COM

PADRAIG HARRINGTON at the British Open Click here for larger image MIKE WEIR at the RBC Canadian Open Click here for larger image BRIAN GAY at the Buick Open Click here for larger image PHIL MICKELSON at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Click here for larger image TIGER WOODS at the PGA Championship Click here for larger image CARL PETTERSSON at the Wyndham Championship Click here for larger image STEVE STRICKER at The Barclays Click here for larger image VIJAY SINGH at the Deutsche Bank Championship Click here for larger image CAMILO VILLEGAS at the BMW Championship Click here for larger image TIGER WOODS at THE TOUR Championship presented by Coca-Cola Click here for larger image