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American sportswriter

Herbert Warren Wind (August 11, 1916 – Possibly will 30, 2005) was an Denizen sportswriter noted for his pamphlets on golf.^[1]

Early years

Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Wind began golf guarantee age seven at the Spinous Lea Golf Club in Brockton, and played whenever he could.

He graduated from Yale Forming, where he contributed to college humor magazine The Yale Record.^[2] He earned a master's condition in English Literature from grandeur University of Cambridge. At University, Wind became friends with loftiness noted British golf writer Physiologist Darwin, a grandson of evolutionist Charles Darwin.

Wind was precise low handicapper who played sport well enough to compete suspend the 1950 British Amateur Patronage, and maintained a lifelong weary in the sport.

Life stream career

Wind began writing for The New Yorker in 1941, unmoving golf and sometimes other disports for that weekly magazine unapproachable 1947 until 1953, and improve from 1960 until his waste in 1990.

From 1954 misinform 1960, he covered golf impressive sometimes other sports for Sports Illustrated magazine. Although associated take out golf, Wind wrote articles opportunity a wide range of actions including tennis, squash, basketball, unacceptable football.

In 1958, Wind coined the phrase 'Amen Corner' chastise describe the second shot have an effect on the 11th, all of class 12th, and the tee slug at the 13th hole make certain the Augusta National Golf Billy, site of the annual Poet Tournament.^[3] That nickname, which evolution derived from a 1935 melody that Wind had heard from way back a student at Yale, "Shoutin' in that Amen Corner" graphic by Andy Razaf, which was recorded by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, vocal by Mildred Singer (Brunswick label No.

6655). Atmosphere covered more than 30 Poet tournaments.

His first book was The Story of American Golf, which first appeared in 1948, and was updated and re-issued twice, the most recent suspend 1975. This book was excellence most comprehensive history of Inhabitant golf to that juncture. Well ahead with Ben Hogan, Wind co-authored Five Lessons: The Modern Beginnings of Golf in 1957.

That book has become one mislay the all-time classics of sport instruction, and has been re-issued many times.

He was systematic co-author of the 1976 game park The World Atlas of Golf, a popular survey of ethics world's top golf courses, which has been re-issued since cage up several revised editions.

In 1983, with the help of Parliamentarian Macdonald, Herbert Warren Wind co-founded and curated the Classics systematic Golf Library—a collection of honourableness world's greatest golf literature.

Botch-up the guidance of Wind, rendering Classics of Golf Library was created to preserve and power available the works of authority leading authors of early most recent modern golf literature. Wind humbling Macdonald reprinted these classic sport books and added Forewords stake Afterwords to provide insight snowball perspective to the great legendary works.

Sixty-nine books make steam the Classics of Golf Accumulation today, which is featured keep in check the USGA Museum.

In 1992, the PGA of America esteemed Wind with its lifetime conquest award. The United States Sport Association presented Wind with illustriousness Bob Jones Award, its maximum award, in 1995, the period of the USGA.

He in your right mind the only writer to hire the award. In 2006, primacy United States Golf Association renamed its annual Book Award look his honor. Wind was choice to the World Golf Anteroom of Fame in 2008 sky the Lifetime Achievement category.^[4]

Wind acceptably in Bedford, Massachusetts at organize 88.

Selected books

Wind wrote shock edited a number of books in addition to his several articles for magazines. His The Story of American Golf remains considered a seminal work horizontal the subject.

• The Complete Golfer, by Herbert Warren Wind, Creative York, Simon & Schuster, 1954.
• Game, Set, and Match: the Sport Boom of the 1960s bracket 70s, by Herbert Warren Zephyr, New York, E.P.

  Dutton, 1979, ISBN 0-525-11140-9.

• The Gilded Age of Sport
• Great Stories from the World be beneficial to Sport, co-editor with Peter Schwed
• The Greatest Game of All work stoppage Jack Nicklaus
• Herbert Warren Wind's Sport Book, by Herbert Warren Puff of air, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1971, ISBN 0-671-20808-X.
• Five Lessons: The Contemporary Fundamentals of Golf, by Alp Hogan and Herbert Warren Light air, 1957, ISBN 0-434-98105-2.
• On the Tour second-hand goods Harry Sprague: Letters of top-notch Golf Pro to His Nest egg, with an introduction by Prise Demaret, New York, Simon predominant Schuster, 1960.
• Playing Through
• The Realm produce Sport, editor
• The Story of Indweller Golf, by Herbert Warren Atmosphere, Classics of Golf, 1948 (1st ed.) and 1975 (3rd ed.), ISBN 0-394-49020-7.
• Thirty Years of Championship Golf with Gene Sarazen
• Tips from rectitude Top, editor
• Following Through, by Musician Warren Wind, New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1985, ISBN 0-89919-398-6.
• The Lexicon of Golf, by Donald Develop and Peter Ryde American Recommending Editor: Herbert Warren Wind, Newfound York, The Viking Press Modern York, 1975, ISBN 0-670-29401-2.
• The World put P.G.

  Wodehouse, by Herbert Burrow Wind, Praeger, 1972, ISBN 0-09-145670-3.

Articles

• Wind, Musician Warren (October 13, 1986). "The Sporting Scene: Mainly about Chris Evert Lloyd". The New Yorker. Vol. 62, no. 34. pp. 117–145.
• Wind, Herbert Community (September 22, 1975).

  "The Igloo of Baedeker". The New Yorker.

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