Golf art and artist biography: Steven Anthony Salerno

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PGATOUR.COM contributing artist Steven Anthony Salerno, who created the Tiger Woods image below along with our previous Player Spotlight images, is a professional graphic artist of nearly 30 years, and has been playing this great game of golf for even longer.

As a teenager, he won his home state of Vermont's Junior Amateur Championship, and as young man was an 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 creates striking golf paintings and graphics and soon a selection of his golfing images will be available as limited edition prints and posters.

He is a graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he lives and works.

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