Anatomy Of A Masthead: 2010 U.S. Open

The art department, a.k.a. Tom Naccarato, is once again responsible for the special-edition masthead for 2010 U.S. Open week. The image in question is taken from the 1929 U.S. Amateur Program at Pebble Beach and was painted by Maurice Lount.

I thought you might enjoy seeing the forensics of Naccarato's Photoshop effort to salvage the old cover we scanned a few years ago at the Ralph Miller Golf Library (RIP), as well as his effort to turn it into a presentable image and then a masthead.

Here's what he originally had to work with (click to enlarge the images):

And stitched together, before cleanup of scratches, spine damage and the 75 (price?) written in:

Cleaned up. Note the replacement of the library code sticker on the D in Del Monte:

And the masthead: