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Lee Wybranski produced this painting around this year’s Masters tournament. Courtesy of Lee Wybranski <\/p>\nGolf\u2019s best players are often described as artists playing the game on some of the best canvases in the world. Especially so when it comes to the major championships, the pinnacles of the sport. <\/p>\n
Many of those major championships over the past two decades have been captured by Lee Wybranski. Not as a player, but an artist who\u2019s grown his business to a point he has agreements in place with most of golf\u2019s major governing bodies. <\/p>\n
Wybranski started out sketching prints of classic golf clubhouses in the 1990s. Now, he\u2019s painted the official portrait for most of the men\u2019s major championships dating back nearly two decades.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you do a job for a club, you might make 100 prints and I might spend 100 hours on something that only 500 people will see in the next five years,\u201d Wybranski said. \u201cAnd the poster kind of tickled me because of the populist art form. You do a poster, and 10,000 people might see it over the course of a weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee Wybranski produced this painting around this year’s Masters tournament. Courtesy of Lee Wybranski <\/p>\n
Wybranski Art & Design, based in Arizona, has five employees. Wybranski\u2019s first tournament poster was at the 2008 U.S. Open at Torrey Pines, and he\u2019s now painted many of the game\u2019s cathedrals, including St Andrews, Augusta National, Pebble Beach and more. Recently, he traveled to the headquarters of the United States Golf Association in Southern Pines, N.C., to unveil his official poster for the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe has a unique way of capturing the spirit of the host club, and it\u2019s a little bit different every time,\u201d said Mary Lopuszynski, the USGA\u2019s longtime head of licensing. \u201cHe\u2019s also very engaging, and everyone loves working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most of Wybranski\u2019s tournament posters seen in merchandise tents are smaller, at 18 by 12 inches, because of their popularity, but they also come in larger sizes. The posters retail starting at $30.<\/p>\n
Wybranski\u2019s work is not limited to paintings, though. His company has designed logos for major championships and other merchandise, including T-shirts, mugs, club headcovers and more. At the U.S. Open, he can usually be found in the merchandise pavilion signing portraits for fans throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n
Wasserman\u2019s Barry Hyde works with Wybranski. While his work has largely centered around golf, Wybranski hopes to branch out more into other sports such as tennis, horse racing or even baseball. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy entire network is within the golf world, so I\u2019ve been very keen to try to plant some flags elsewhere,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019d love to get into major cultural avenues; music, big festivals, things like that. Things that just sort of have a larger audience than golf. An artist\u2019s great vanity, I think, is eyeballs, and so I\u2019d love to get in front of different or other people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Golf\u2019s best players are often described as artists playing the game on some of the best canvases in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,198283,755,118557,48702,85,11766],"class_list":["post-364828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-closing-shot","tag-golf","tag-pga-of-america","tag-print","tag-sports","tag-usga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}