Bill Hawthorne who lives in Davenport, Iowa is an avid golfer. He enjoys playing the Quad City area courses as well as traveling to Ireland and Scotland to play some of the original links and British Open Courses. He has painted dozens of local and international courses as a hobby and only began recently to display and offer these paintings.
Golf is so diverse it is not hard to find a new and challenging hole that has the character that can be displayed on canvass. Above all other games, golf is a form of art that blends skill and passion.
Celtic castles became a major part of his paintings from both his roots and travels. Golf originated from these lands where castles abound and where coastal landscapes had few other uses but golf. Some of the courses he has painted are accented by nearby castles. In Scotland Stirling Castle overlooks the King’s Course, and Turnberry was built adjacent to the site of an ancient fortification. Even the Royal and Ancient Club House of St. Andrews could be mistaken for a more recent castle.