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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (February 24, 2010) – Linda Hartough, world-renowned golf-landscape artist (www.hartough.com), will give a live interview on ESPN 1280 Golf Talk Radio with Mike and Billy on Feb. 27 at 8:35 a.m. Pacific time. The show, which will originate from California, will be available to everyone for listening live at www.espnradio1280.com, at “Listen Online.”

”I look forward to the interview,” said Hartough, who exhibited some of her work at the PGA Merchandise Show last month in Orlando, Fla., including the 21st painting in her U.S. Open series, the 9th hole at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, Calif., commissioned by the U.S. Golf Association for the 2010 U.S. Open.

Golf Talk Radio, with co-hosts Mike Brabenec and Billy Gibbs, is a local golf-talk show covering Central Coast and Northern Santa Barbara counties. It is an entertaining popular two-hour show with listener interaction, tips, interviews, rules instruction, product previews, etc. The program focuses on both local and national golf, and provides a local spin on national golf events and stories.

This year marks 21 years since Hartough first was commissioned by the USGA to create annual paintings and prints of the U.S. Open. She is the only artist ever commissioned by the USGA and the R&A to do the annual paintings and prints for the U.S. Open and the British Open Championships. Hartough painted the first of her U.S. Open series in 1990, when Hale Irwin won at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Ill. Each year, in addition to her original U.S. Open painting, limited-edition prints and artist proofs are available for sale.

Linda Hartough Studio and The Booklegger recently announced a new line of Linda Hartough signature gift items based on Hartough’s golf-landscape paintings.

A confirmed artist since childhood, early in her career Hartough painted landscapes, portraits and horses. In 1984, Augusta National Golf Club commissioned her to paint its famous 13th hole, an event which propelled Hartough toward specialization as a golf-landscape painter. Since then, her work has achieved a distinguished status, displayed in the permanent collections of such legendary clubs as Augusta National, Laurel Valley, Pinehurst and Pine Valley, as well as in the personal collections of such golf notables as Jack Nicklaus, Raymond Floyd and Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Known for extraordinary attention to detail in her recreation of some of golf’s most beautiful holes, Hartough imbues her paintings with admiration for the scenery’s natural beauty and respect for the game’s history and tradition, elements which seem to emerge from the canvas.

Hartough is a Founding Trustee of the Academy of Golf Art, a professional society of golf artists established in 2004 to create an awareness and appreciation of golf art as a valuable segment of fine art.