Golf Art Styles Explained: Paintings, Drawings & Sketches

Search "golf course painting" or "golf hole drawing" and you'll find a mix of oil paintings, pencil sketches, and giclee prints — different mediums, same instinct: turning a golf hole into something worth hanging. At Mymo, our medium is watercolour, hand-illustrated for every commission rather than mass-printed from a template.

Painting vs. Print vs. Sketch: What's the Difference?

A traditional golf course painting is typically an original, one-off canvas — beautiful, but slow to produce, and it can only ever depict one moment for one buyer. A sketch captures a course's outline quickly, often in pencil or ink, prioritising line over colour. A Mymo print sits between the two: each one is hand-illustrated in watercolour style specifically for your course and hole, then produced as a fine art print — so you get the character of original artwork without waiting on a single one-off canvas.

Why Watercolour?

Golf courses are landscapes first — fairways, bunkers, water, sky. Watercolour handles that softness and light in a way a flat vector map or a straight photograph can't, which is why it's become the signature look for the golf art most people are searching for, whether they call it a painting, a drawing, a sketch, or a print.

Explore Golf Art in Every Style

Browse the full golf art and prints collection, or design your own hole — any course, any hole, painted in Mymo's signature watercolour style.