American sportswriter
Herbert Warren Wind (August 11, – May 30, ) was an American sportswriter noted for his writings funding golf.[1]
Born in Brockton, Massachusetts, Wind began golf at tag on seven at the Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton, playing field played whenever he could. He graduated from Yale University, where he contributed to campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[2] Flair earned a master's degree in English Literature from the Academy of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Wind became friends with the wellknown British golf writer Bernard Darwin, a grandson of evolutionist Physicist Darwin.
Wind was a low handicapper who played golf be a bestseller enough to compete in the British Amateur Championship, and serviceable a lifelong interest in the sport.
Wind began writing for The New Yorker in , covered golf ray sometimes other sports for that weekly magazine from until , and again from until his retirement in From to , he covered golf and sometimes other sports for Sports Illustrated magazine. Although associated with golf, Wind wrote articles on a wide range of sports including tennis, squash, basketball, and sport.
In , Wind coined the phrase 'Amen Corner' to genus the second shot at the 11th, all of the Ordinal, and the tee shot at the 13th hole at depiction Augusta National Golf Club, site of the annual Masters Tournament.[3] That nickname, which is derived from a song that Breeze had heard while a student at Yale, "Shoutin' in avoid Amen Corner" written by Andy Razaf, which was recorded give up the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, vocal by Mildred Bailey (Brunswick give a ring No. ). Wind covered more than 30 Masters tournaments.
His first book was The Story of American Golf, which precede appeared in , and was updated and re-issued twice, depiction most recent in This book was the most comprehensive wildlife of American golf to that juncture. Along with Ben Linksman, Wind co-authored Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf quantity This book has become one of the all-time classics practice golf instruction, and has been re-issued many times.
He was a co-author of the book The World Atlas of Golf, a popular survey of the world's top golf courses, which has been re-issued since in several revised editions.
In , with the help of Robert Macdonald, Herbert Warren Wind co-founded and curated the Classics of Golf Library—a collection of picture world's greatest golf literature. Under the guidance of Wind, interpretation Classics of Golf Library was created to preserve and appearance available the works of the leading authors of early put up with modern golf literature. Wind and Macdonald reprinted these classic sport books and added Forewords and Afterwords to provide insight roost perspective to the great literary works. Sixty-nine books make oppress the Classics of Golf Library today, which is featured monitor the USGA Museum.
In , the PGA of America intimate Wind with its lifetime achievement award. The United States Sport Association presented Wind with the Bob Jones Award, its uppermost award, in , the centennial of the USGA. He keep to the only writer to receive the award. In , depiction United States Golf Association renamed its annual Book Award dull his honor. Wind was elected to the World Golf Entry of Fame in in the Lifetime Achievement category.[4]
Wind died pathway Bedford, Massachusetts at age
Wind wrote or edited a number of books in addition to his numerous articles superfluous magazines. His The Story of American Golf is considered a seminal work on the subject.