The things we love, drawn as data.

Topographic prints of British and Irish golf courses, drawn from government surveys at one metre where they exist. Every print states its source. Each course a genuine edition of 50, made to order in Britain.

Or start with the Founder’s Edit · The Open Rota · Dunes

Royal County Down topographic golf course print, framed — Gorwel Print Co

Founder’s Edit

Twelve I would hang first. Not the most famous courses, though some are — the ones where the ground does something the eye misses from the tee, and the survey caught it. Dunes at County Down and Dornoch, the cliff at Castle Stuart, the raised beach at Ballybunion, a heath at Sunningdale drawn in the same ink as the links. Each is an edition of 50.

Drawn by Jac Ellis Jones, Wrexham.

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Edition of 50 · 310gsm cotton rag · Made to order in Britain · Free UK delivery

Machine-drawn. Human-culled.

The government flies laser surveys of the country and publishes them — a height reading for every square metre. We draw what they measured beneath the fairways: every dune ridge, every hollow, every fold the eye misses from the first tee.

Then every sheet is checked by hand. If the drawing doesn’t hold, it doesn’t ship.

Dunes

Where the survey earns its keep. A dune links has more vertical in a hundred yards than a parkland course has in eighteen holes, and at one metre the laser catches all of it: the ridge lines, the blowouts, the hollows you only find on a Sunday. County Down and Dornoch are the obvious ones; Cruden Bay, Castle Stuart and St Enodoc are the ones people don’t expect to look like this. Each is an edition of 50.

Drawn by Jac Ellis Jones, Wrexham.

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From survey to wall

  • The survey

    1-metre LIDAR from the Environment Agency, DataMapWales and the Scottish Remote Sensing Portal. Every print states its source.

  • The drawing

    Elevation rendered as contour lines in one dark green ink. Nothing added that the ground didn’t put there.

  • The cull

    Every sheet judged by eye against one question: would it hold its own in a gallery? If not, it doesn’t ship.

  • The print

    Archival giclée at 300 dpi on 310gsm cotton rag. Edition of 50. Rolled in a tube, or framed and ready to hang.

The Open Rota

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Every print carries its data strip.

Founding year, par, yardage, architect and terrain, compiled from club records and archives, with the historic county and the survey the print was drawn from. If we’ve got one wrong, tell us and we’ll correct the plate.

EST. 1889 · PAR 71 · 7,186 YDS · OLD TOM MORRIS · LINKS

Wales

Gorwel is Welsh for horizon, and this is where the prints come from. Porthcawl on its headland, Harlech under the castle, Aberdovey along the estuary, Tenby — the oldest club in Wales — on its dunes, Pennard on the cliffs above Three Cliffs Bay. Eight for now, drawn from DataMapWales LIDAR at one metre. More to come; the north is next. Each is an edition of 50.

Drawn by Jac Ellis Jones, Wrexham.

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Can’t find your course?

Every course we have drawn is searchable by name. If yours isn’t here yet, email jac@gorwelprintco.com and we’ll check whether the survey exists.