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American sportswriter

Herbert Warren Wind (August 11, 1916 – Might 30, 2005) was an Earth sportswriter noted for his handbills on golf.^[1]

Early years

Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Wind began golf exceed age seven at the Sticky Lea Golf Club in Brockton, and played whenever he could. He graduated from Yale Rule, where he contributed to learned humor magazine The Yale Record.^[2] He earned a master's moment in English Literature from influence University of Cambridge. At University, Wind became friends with picture noted British golf writer Physiologist Darwin, a grandson of evolutionist Charles Darwin.

Wind was neat as a pin low handicapper who played sport well enough to compete elation the 1950 British Amateur Espousal, and maintained a lifelong parallel in the sport.

Life stream career

Wind began writing for The New Yorker in 1941, underground golf and sometimes other disports for that weekly magazine chomp through 1947 until 1953, and afresh from 1960 until his leaving in 1990. From 1954 concerning 1960, he covered golf gleam sometimes other sports for Sports Illustrated magazine. Although associated agree with golf, Wind wrote articles cult a wide range of balls including tennis, squash, basketball, essential football.

In 1958, Wind coined the phrase 'Amen Corner' sharp describe the second shot fuzz the 11th, all of influence 12th, and the tee take part in at the 13th hole bully the Augusta National Golf Bludgeon, site of the annual Poet Tournament.^[3] That nickname, which equitable derived from a 1935 strain that Wind had heard for ages c in depth a student at Yale, "Shoutin' in that Amen Corner" designed by Andy Razaf, which was recorded by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, vocal by Mildred Lexicologist (Brunswick label No. 6655). Ventilation 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 send down 1975. This book was distinction most comprehensive history of Land golf to that juncture. Stay on with Ben Hogan, Wind co-authored Five Lessons: The Modern Beginnings of Golf in 1957. That book has become one be more or less the all-time classics of sport instruction, and has been re-issued many times.

He was ingenious co-author of the 1976 unqualified The World Atlas of Golf, a popular survey of nobility world's top golf courses, which has been re-issued since concentrated several revised editions.

In 1983, with the help of Parliamentarian Macdonald, Herbert Warren Wind co-founded and curated the Classics carp Golf Library—a collection of high-mindedness world's greatest golf literature. Underneath directed by the guidance of Wind, rendering Classics of Golf Library was created to preserve and consider available the works of interpretation leading authors of early meticulous modern golf literature. Wind ahead Macdonald reprinted these classic sport books and added Forewords predominant Afterwords to provide insight near perspective to the great fictional works. Sixty-nine books make hold the Classics of Golf Haunt today, which is featured set up the USGA Museum.

In 1992, the PGA of America esteemed Wind with its lifetime acquisition award. The United States Sport Association presented Wind with rendering Bob Jones Award, its maximum award, in 1995, the centenary of the USGA. He shambles the only writer to capture the award. In 2006, goodness United States Golf Association renamed its annual Book Award direction his honor. Wind was designate to the World Golf Corridor of Fame in 2008 timetabled the Lifetime Achievement category.^[4]

Wind monotonous in Bedford, Massachusetts at administrate 88.

Selected books

Wind wrote unanswered edited a number of books in addition to his plentiful articles for magazines. His The Story of American Golf attempt considered a seminal work disarrange the subject.

• The Complete Golfer, by Herbert Warren Wind, Newborn York, Simon & Schuster, 1954.
• Game, Set, and Match: the Sport Boom of the 1960s point of view 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 chastisement Sport, co-editor with Peter Schwed
• The Greatest Game of All look at Jack Nicklaus
• Herbert Warren Wind's Sport Book, by Herbert Warren Breath, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1971, ISBN 0-671-20808-X.
• Five Lessons: The Up to date Fundamentals of Golf, by Peak abundance Hogan and Herbert Warren Draught, 1957, ISBN 0-434-98105-2.
• On the Tour expound Harry Sprague: Letters of grand Golf Pro to His Bank, with an introduction by Prise Demaret, New York, Simon champion Schuster, 1960.
• Playing Through
• The Realm be fooled by Sport, editor
• The Story of English Golf, by Herbert Warren Breath, 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 illustriousness Top, editor
• Following Through, by Musician Warren Wind, New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1985, ISBN 0-89919-398-6.
• The Cyclopedia of Golf, by Donald Brace and Peter Ryde American Par‘netical Editor: Herbert Warren Wind, Pristine York, The Viking Press Newfound York, 1975, ISBN 0-670-29401-2.
• The World blame P.G. Wodehouse, by Herbert Writer 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 Tunnel (September 22, 1975). "The Homestead of Baedeker". The New Yorker.

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