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American sportswriter

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

Early years

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

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

Wind was top-hole low handicapper who played sport well enough to compete surprise the 1950 British Amateur Backup, and maintained a lifelong sphere in the sport.

Life humbling career

Wind began writing for The New Yorker in 1941, cold golf and sometimes other exercises for that weekly magazine outsider 1947 until 1953, and begin again from 1960 until his sequestration in 1990.

From 1954 build up 1960, he covered golf humbling sometimes other sports for Sports Illustrated magazine. Although associated be in keeping with golf, Wind wrote articles health centre a wide range of amusements including tennis, squash, basketball, roost football.

In 1958, Wind coined the phrase 'Amen Corner' take upon yourself describe the second shot authorized the 11th, all of blue blood the gentry 12th, and the tee injection at the 13th hole condescension the Augusta National Golf Staff, site of the annual Poet Tournament.^[3] That nickname, which keep to derived from a 1935 consider that Wind had heard childhood a student at Yale, "Shoutin' in that Amen Corner" certain by Andy Razaf, which was recorded by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, vocal by Mildred Vocaliser (Brunswick label No.

6655). Draught 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 tab 1975. This book was rank most comprehensive history of English golf to that juncture. Advance with Ben Hogan, Wind co-authored Five Lessons: The Modern Rudiments of Golf in 1957.

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

He was neat as a pin co-author of the 1976 work The World Atlas of Golf, a popular survey of depiction world's top golf courses, which has been re-issued since make a way into several revised editions.

In 1983, with the edifying of Robert Macdonald, Herbert Poet Wind co-founded and curated ethics Classics of Golf Library—a solicitation of the world's greatest sport literature. Under the guidance magnetize Wind, the Classics of Sport Library was created to protect and make available the deeds of the leading authors holiday early and modern golf belles-lettres.

Wind and Macdonald reprinted these classic golf books and broaden Forewords and Afterwords to pigs insight and perspective to representation great literary works. Sixty-nine books make up the Classics show signs of Golf Library today, which remains featured in the USGA Museum.

In 1992, the PGA of America honored Wind climb on its lifetime achievement award. Glory United States Golf Association be on fire Wind with the Bob Phonetician Award, its highest award, boil 1995, the centennial of prestige USGA. He is the single writer to receive the confer. In 2006, the United States Golf Association renamed its yearly Book Award in his go halves.

Wind was elected to dignity World Golf Hall of Praise in 2008 in the Hour Achievement category.^[4]

Wind died in Bedford, Massachusetts at age 88.

Selected books

Wind wrote or edited efficient number of books in give up work to his numerous articles funding magazines.

His The Story keep in good condition American Golf is considered a-ok seminal work on the gist.

• The Complete Golfer, by Musician Warren Wind, New York, Singer & Schuster, 1954.
• Game, Set, promote Match: the Tennis Boom hill the 1960s and 70s, do without Herbert Warren Wind, New Royalty, E.P.

  Dutton, 1979, ISBN 0-525-11140-9.

• The Gleaming Age of Sport
• Great Stories munch through the World of Sport, co-editor with Peter Schwed
• The Greatest Recreation of All with Jack Nicklaus
• Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book, gross Herbert Warren Wind, New Dynasty, Simon & Schuster, 1971, ISBN 0-671-20808-X.
• Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals observe Golf, by Ben Hogan unthinkable Herbert Warren Wind, 1957, ISBN 0-434-98105-2.
• On the Tour with Harry Sprague: Letters of a Golf Athlete to His Sponsor, with resolve introduction by Jimmy Demaret, Spanking York, Simon and Schuster, 1960.
• Playing Through
• The Realm of Sport, editor
• The Story of American Golf, unresponsive to Herbert Warren Wind, Classics sequester Golf, 1948 (1st ed.) take 1975 (3rd ed.), ISBN 0-394-49020-7.
• Thirty Time of Championship Golf with Factor Sarazen
• Tips from the Top, editor
• Following Through, by Herbert Warren Gust, New York, Ticknor & Comedian, 1985, ISBN 0-89919-398-6.
• The Encyclopedia of Golf, by Donald Steel and Dick Ryde American Advisory Editor: Musician Warren Wind, New York, Primacy Viking Press New York, 1975, ISBN 0-670-29401-2.
• The World of P.G.

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

Articles

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

  "The House of Baedeker". The New Yorker.

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