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Oil Painting Harry Busson Presenting Persimmon Golf Club To Pro Bernhard Langer

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Experience the beauty of a sporting work of art with this oil painting of the legendary golf club maker Harry Busson. Depicting the iconic moment of Busson presenting a persimmon golf club to pro player Bernhard Langer at Walton Heath Golf Club, this piece captures the essence of the sport. A must-have for any golf enthusiast.
Impress your guests & clients in your home or office with this sporting masterpiece.
Subject historic sporting portrait of the known Walton Heath Golf Club with Harry Busson who is handing over a Persimmon to golf legend professional sportsman Bernhard Langer when he was in his earlier prime years. In front central profile, Langer & Harry are looking fondly at each other both wearing bright red jumpers with white shirts, Harry is holding and about to pass over the golf club he made to Langer, who has his hand outreached touching the top of the golf club. In the background is the lush low cut green golf course, to the left a forest of tall trees and above blue sky with scattered white cloud cover.
Title "Harry Busson Handing Over Persimmon Wood To Bernhard Langer At The Historic Walton Heath Golf Club" By K Bosco.
Oil on canvas set in a later black & gold Larson Juhl LJC Urbane moulding frame. With AR70 artglass front protective cover.
Signed in the bottom corner by the artist K Bosco.
Circa late 20th century 1980's.
A rather good frame size being 57.5 cm high and 72.5 cm wide.
Bernhard Langer was born 27 August 1957) is a German professional golfer. He is a two-time Masters champion and was one of the world's leading golfers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1986, he became the sport's first number one ranked player following the creation of the Sony Ranking (now the Official World Golf Ranking). Langer is one of five golfers who have won professional golf events on all six continents where golf is played. He has victories on all the premiere tours, with 42 wins on the European Tour (2nd most all-time), three on the PGA Tour, and numerous international victories; including wins on the Japan Golf Tour, Asian Tour, Australasian Tour, and the Tour de las Américas.
The highlights of Langer's career are his two major championships. His first major win came at the 1985 Masters Tournament, where Langer won by two strokes over runners-up eve Ballesteros, Raymond Floyd and Curtis Strange, his second major. Langer has also finished runner-up on two occasions at The Open Championship (1981 and 1984). In 2020 Langer became the oldest player in Masters history to make the tournament cut, at age 63. This record has since been overcome by Fred Couples in 2023.
After turning 50, Langer has established himself as the most successful player in the history of the PGA Tour Champions. He has won a record 12 senior major championships, been the money leader in a record 11 seasons and a record 7 times in a row. He has the most PGA Tour Champions career wins and is one of only two players who have achieved the career Senior Grand Slam (winning each of the five major championships at least once during one's career).
He has won the 2010, 2014, 2017 and 2019 Senior Open Championship, the 2010 U.S. Senior Open and 2023 U.S. Senior Open, the 2016 and 2017 Regions Tradition, the 2014, 2015 and 2016
Constellation Senior Players Championship, and the 2017 Senior PGA Championship.
Biography of the genius Harry Busson (1907-1993), who was also a professional golfer and was a well-known club maker. His Brother was a professional golfer John Joseph Busson (2 November 1910 - 1 February 1989) who played in the 1935 Ryder Cup. He was the greatest craftsman known for making some of the very finest golf equipment of his generation. Can you recall the days when woods were crafted from out of real wood also lead tape was the only option of altering a driver's ball flight. Touring professional golfers preferred the persimmon wood and hitting balata golf balls. The players required the finest equipment. They demanded their clubs, to have a certain feel & touch so they could perform at their very best. Of course in Europe this translated you needed to to know Harry Busson. He sadly died in May
1993.
He was also Walton Heath's golf professional for 27 years & succeeding James Braid, the five-time British Open champion. Busson's reputation as a club maker is the equal of his previous Walton Heath boss as a player. After he retired he invested with pleasure for 16 years creating persimmon woods for the game's best golf professionals. He was known to have the skill like a surgeon together with the eye of an artist. Notable golfers who had his branded woods in actual play like Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Greg Norman, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros & Bernhard Langer. When the United States Ryder Cup team came across the Atlantic to play the biennial matches at Walton Heath in 1981 every member of the American team, except for Tom Kite and Bruce Lietzke, ordered woods from Harry Busson. Harry had a photographic eye, at the start of WW2 he was a pattern maker, so skilled with his hands he was not allowed to have active service in WW2. The clubs he made were actual works of art.
Cracks also breakage occurred a lot with golf equipment, due to softer persimmon & fibre inserts. If a club could not be repaired, Busson could, reproduce it in incredible detail. You could give him a driver that had a crack right down the back, he would place it down on the ground and say, 'Oh yes, just a fraction toed in, quite lofted, which is great since you need loft if it is toed in Busson would never write anything down he would just go back to his shop, write down some numbers & words and do what was needed. Busson's clubs the toe and heel parts of his drivers mirrored each other, also his clubs insert lines went right through on the cross of the screws. It was the hallmark of a Busson-made product.
The historic golf club has such a massive following. Walton Heath Golf Club is a golf club in England, near Walton-on-the-Hill in Surrey, southwest of London. Founded in 1903, the club comprises two 18-hole golf courses, both of which are well known for having heather covering many of the areas of rough. The Old Course opened in 1904, and (as of 2009) has a championship length of 7,406 yards (6,772 m). The New Course opened as a 9-hole course in 1907 and was extended to 18 holes in 1913; its championship length in 2009 was 7,199 yards (6,583 m). Both were designed by Herbert Fowler, who later designed numerous courses in the United Kingdom and United States.
Walton Heath has had a long association with royalty and politics, with Edward, Prince of Wales having been the club's first captain in 1935, and former United Kingdom Prime Ministers David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Bonar Law and Arthur Balfour all having been members. The club has also only ever had four club professionals, including five time British Open champion James Braid who held the post from 1904 until 1950. Both courses at Walton Heath have been consistently rated in the UK's top 100 courses, with the Old Course also being rated as one of the top 100 in the world.
Provenance Private Golf Collection from the Shire based vendor & Shire auction & Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Front painting surface in overall good order. Having had a small paint touch up to the lower grass area with a small black patch shown on the canvas rear, also having various foxing to the canvas verso. Frame which has some imperfections commensurate with being handmade.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (57.5 cm)
Wide (72.5 cm)
Depth thickness of frame (4 cm)