Sixty golf courses,
on your desktop.

Links land in Ireland and Scotland. The Canadian Rockies. Volcanic Iceland, Hawaii, and the California coast. All in 4K, all free, all openly licensed.

Download for 16:93840×2160 · most displays Download for 16:103456×2234 · MacBook

Also for phone — iPhone 1290×2796 Android 1440×3120

Install

Download, unzip, point your system at the folder. Both platforms rotate wallpapers natively — no extra software needed.

  1. Unzip somewhere permanent — ~/Pictures/background.golf works well.
  2. Open System Settings → Wallpaper.
  3. Scroll to the bottom and click Add Folder…, then choose the folder.
  4. Turn on Rotate every and pick an interval.

Keep the folder images-only. If you unzipped the pack, move CREDITS.md, LICENSE and the live folder elsewhere first — macOS can refuse a folder containing other files.

macOS 14 Sonoma removed the scriptable wallpaper API, so this step is manual on current macOS. That is also why this project ships no install script.

  1. Unzip somewhere permanent — Pictures\background.golf works well.
  2. Open Settings → Personalization → Background.
  3. Set Personalize your background to Slideshow.
  4. Browse to the unzipped folder.
  5. Pick how often to change, and set Choose a fit to Fill.

Take the 16:9 pack on Windows — it matches almost every PC monitor exactly, with no cropping.

  1. KDE Plasma — right-click the desktop → Configure Desktop and Wallpaper → set type to Slideshow → add the folder.
  2. GNOME — no built-in slideshow UI. Variety handles rotation and points straight at a folder.
  3. Sway / Hyprland — point swaybg or hyprpaper at the folder from a shell loop.

iPhone — with automatic shuffle

  1. Unzip and save the images to Photos, then move them into their own album.
  2. Settings → Wallpaper → Add New Wallpaper.
  3. Choose Photo Shuffle, tap Album, and pick the album you made.
  4. Set Shuffle Frequency — on tap, on lock, hourly or daily.

Photo Shuffle needs iOS 16 or later. On older versions, set a single image with Settings → Wallpaper → Add New Wallpaper → Photos.

Android

  1. Unzip and save the images to your gallery.
  2. Settings → Wallpaper & style → Change wallpaper → My photos (wording varies by manufacturer).
  3. Pick an image and choose whether to apply it to the home screen, lock screen or both.

Android has no built-in folder rotation. Most launchers offer it, or a wallpaper changer app can point at the folder.

These are cropped, not the same photo. Every source photograph is landscape, so the phone packs are a centre crop — dramatic and full-bleed, but the far edges of wide panoramas are not in frame. If you want the whole composition, take a desktop pack.

Live wallpaper

Every pack includes a live folder — a single page that cross-fades the whole set with a slow drifting zoom. The hero at the top of this page is exactly that effect.

macOS — Plash

  1. Install Plash (free, App Store).
  2. Plash menu → Open URL… → Choose File…
  3. Pick live/index.html from the unzipped pack.

Windows — Lively Wallpaper

  1. Install Lively Wallpaper (free, Microsoft Store).
  2. Add Wallpaper → Browse → select live/index.html.

Battery: an always-animating desktop keeps the GPU awake. The default drift is deliberately slow, and both apps pause it when a window covers the desktop.

Tune it by adding options to the file path: index.html?duration=45&fade=3&zoom=1.05 — seconds per image, cross-fade length, and how far it pushes in. Add shuffle=0 to keep the set in order.

On your phone too

Separate packs for iPhone and Android, cropped to portrait.

Old Head Golf Links
Old Head Golf Links
Turnberry, Ailsa Course
Turnberry, Ailsa
Banff Springs Golf Course
Banff Springs
Ko Olina Golf Club
Ko Olina
Vestmannaeyjar Golf Club
Vestmannaeyjar

These are cropped, not the same photo. Every source photograph is landscape, so the phone packs take the middle of the frame — dramatic and full-bleed, but the far edges of a wide panorama are not in it. Want the whole composition? Take a desktop pack.

About the photographs

Every image comes from Wikimedia Commons under a free Creative Commons license, and every photographer is credited — in the corner of the image itself, and in full in CREDITS.md, which ships inside each download.

None of these photographs are public domain. All 60 require attribution: 37 are CC BY-SA, which additionally requires that adaptations be shared alike. Using them as your desktop asks nothing of you. Redistributing or remixing them means keeping the credit and honouring each image's license.

The wallpapers are cropped to fit common screen shapes and have a credit composited into the corner. Nothing else is altered — no colour grading, no retouching. The build scripts are MIT licensed; that covers the code only, never the photographs.