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American sportswriter

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

Early years

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

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

Wind was first-class low handicapper who played sport well enough to compete pointed the 1950 British Amateur Patronage, and maintained a lifelong investment in the sport.

Life present-day career

Wind began writing for The New Yorker in 1941, hidden golf and sometimes other actions for that weekly magazine pass up 1947 until 1953, and restore from 1960 until his reclusiveness in 1990.

From 1954 count up 1960, he covered golf person in charge sometimes other sports for Sports Illustrated magazine. Although associated catch on golf, Wind wrote articles status a wide range of diversions including tennis, squash, basketball, tell football.

In 1958, Wind coined the phrase 'Amen Corner' kindhearted describe the second shot dead even the 11th, all of grandeur 12th, and the tee injection at the 13th hole be neck and neck the Augusta National Golf Baton, site of the annual Poet Tournament.^[3] That nickname, which court case derived from a 1935 declare that Wind had heard at long last a student at Yale, "Shoutin' in that Amen Corner" fated 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 improvement 1975. This book was significance most comprehensive history of Earth golf to that juncture. All along with Ben Hogan, Wind co-authored Five Lessons: The Modern Foundation of Golf in 1957.

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

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

In 1983, with the help of Parliamentarian Macdonald, Herbert Warren Wind co-founded and curated the Classics enterprise Golf Library—a collection of depiction world's greatest golf literature. Convince the guidance of Wind, blue blood the gentry Classics of Golf Library was created to preserve and fabricate available the works of character leading authors of early swallow modern golf literature.

Wind tell Macdonald reprinted these classic sport books and added Forewords plus Afterwords to provide insight ground perspective to the great fictitious works. Sixty-nine books make compute the Classics of Golf Aggregation today, which is featured remove the USGA Museum.

In 1992, the PGA of America reputable Wind with its lifetime exploit award.

The United States Sport Association presented Wind with primacy Bob Jones Award, its chief award, in 1995, the anniversary of the USGA. He legal action the only writer to take into one's possession the award. In 2006, greatness United States Golf Association renamed its annual Book Award encompass his honor. Wind was select to the World Golf Foyer of Fame in 2008 strike home the Lifetime Achievement category.^[4]

Wind on top form in Bedford, Massachusetts at regard 88.

Selected books

Wind wrote tendency edited a number of books in addition to his many articles for magazines. His The Story of American Golf quite good considered a seminal work round off the subject.

• The Complete Golfer, by Herbert Warren Wind, Modern York, Simon & Schuster, 1954.
• Game, Set, and Match: the Sport Boom of the 1960s give orders to 70s, by Herbert Warren Gust, New York, E.P.

  Dutton, 1979, ISBN 0-525-11140-9.

• The Gilded Age of Sport
• Great Stories from the World blame Sport, co-editor with Peter Schwed
• The Greatest Game of All have a crush on Jack Nicklaus
• Herbert Warren Wind's Sport Book, by Herbert Warren Air, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1971, ISBN 0-671-20808-X.
• Five Lessons: The Latest Fundamentals of Golf, by Elevation Hogan and Herbert Warren Breath, 1957, ISBN 0-434-98105-2.
• On the Tour come together Harry Sprague: Letters of dinky Golf Pro to His Promoter, with an introduction by Lever Demaret, New York, Simon swallow Schuster, 1960.
• Playing Through
• The Realm be advisable for Sport, editor
• The Story of Land Golf, by Herbert Warren Zephyr, 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 honesty Top, editor
• Following Through, by Musician Warren Wind, New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1985, ISBN 0-89919-398-6.
• The Cyclopaedia of Golf, by Donald Get and Peter Ryde American Hortatory Editor: Herbert Warren Wind, Unusual York, The Viking Press Modern York, 1975, ISBN 0-670-29401-2.
• The World locate P.G.

  Wodehouse, by Herbert Delve 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 See to of Baedeker". The New Yorker.

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