Golf course photography
Your course has its own DNA, and golf course photography is the work of showing it, from vantage points a golfer never gets: first and last light, drone and ground, worked around your tee sheet. One day gives the club a library it uses all year.
What gets photographed
The playing experience, presented: signature holes and the ones members actually talk about. The approach, the bunkering and the green complexes that make the course what it is. The clubhouse, the practice ground and the spaces where people spend time before and after a round.
And the details that carry a place: the light through the trees on the fifth, frost sitting on a green, the first group out. A course is not eighteen photographs of eighteen holes.
Why the hours matter
Most golf photography is taken when it is convenient rather than when the course looks like itself. Low sun rakes across contours that flat midday light erases completely, which is why a good course can photograph as a green field.
I build shoots around sunrise and sunset, worked around the tee sheet. That means early starts and quiet hours, and members who never notice it happened.
What you get
- Signature and feature holes
- Course landscape and architecture
- Clubhouse and practice facilities
- Detail and atmosphere
- Drone stills where useful
- Vertical crops for social
Want this across the whole year?
Four Seasons covers the course in every condition it trades in: four visits across twelve months, delivered as a rolling library rather than a single set. It is how most clubs end up working with me.
Discover Four SeasonsGolf course photography: common questions
- What does golf course photography cost?
- A day on the course starts from £750, and Four Seasons, four visits across the year, from £3,000. Every club needs a different amount of coverage, so the final figure is a fixed quote after a conversation about what the imagery has to do and where it will be used. Tell me the course, roughly when you want to shoot and what you need the pictures for, and I'll come back with a fixed proposal.
- How long does a golf course shoot take?
- A day on the course is my usual shape: first light through to the last of the sun, which is when a course looks its best. I turn that single day into a library the club draws on all year: website, social media, print, campaigns and member communications, rather than a handful of frames.
- When is the best time of year to photograph a golf course?
- There isn't one. Spring gives renovation work and first light over wet greens, summer peak condition and members out, autumn colour and long shadows, winter frost and the work nobody sees. Clubs that photograph once tend to photograph in summer and then look out of date for nine months, which is exactly what I built Four Seasons to fix.
- Will the shoot disrupt play?
- No. I work around your tee sheet, using early starts and quiet hours. Members shouldn't notice the photography is happening.
- How soon do we get the images?
- I deliver the edited gallery within 10 working days. If you need something sooner for social media, I'll send a set of selects inside 48 hours of the shoot.
- What licence do we get with the photographs?
- Full commercial usage for the club, in perpetuity, with no per-image fees. I license everything upfront, so you can use the images on your website, across social media, in membership packs, in print, in the trade press and in campaigns, for as long as you like.
- Are you insured, and approved for drone work?
- Yes. I hold CAA credentials for the aerial work and agree flight plans with the club in advance. Public liability cover is in place, and I'll send certificates on request.
- Do you photograph greenkeeping teams as well as the course?
- Yes, and it's the most under-used story a club owns. I photograph the team, the machinery and the work that happens before anyone tees off, which shows members and visitors why the course is in the condition it is, and that's far harder for a competitor to copy than a picture of a green.
- Where do you work?
- I'm based in Hampshire and work across the United Kingdom and Ireland, with shoots further afield by arrangement. Recent work includes clubs in Hampshire, Kent and Cornwall.