Herbert Warren Wind

Herbert Warren Wind (August 11, 1916 – May 30, 2005) was an American golfer and golf writer, who also wrote on other subjects.

Early years

Wind was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. He began golf at age seven at the Thorny Lea Golf Club in Brockton, and played whenever he could. He graduated from Yale University, and earned a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.

Wind was a low handicapper who played golf well enough to compete in the 1950 British Amateur Championship, and maintained a lifelong interest in the sport.

Writing career

Wind began writing for "The New Yorker" in 1941, covered golf and sometimes other sports for that weekly magazine from 1947 until 1953, and again from 1960 until his retirement in 1990. From 1954 to 1960, he covered golf and sometimes other sports for "Sports Illustrated" magazine.

In 1958, Wind coined the phrase 'Amen Corner' to describe holes 11, 12, and 13 at the Augusta National Golf Club, site of the annual Masters Tournament. The nickname, derived from a 1935 jazz recording by Muzz Mezrow, stuck. Wind covered more than 3 0 Masters 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 in 1975. This book was the most comprehensive history of American golf to that juncture. Along with Ben Hogan, Wind co-authored "Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf" in 1957. This book has become one of the all-time classics of golf instruction, and has been re-issued many times.

He was a co-author of the 1976 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.

Wind died in Bedford, Massachusetts at age 88. In 2006, the United States Golf Association renamed its annual Book Award in his honor.

Wind was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2008 in the Lifetime Achievement category. [ [http://www.pgatour.com/2008/r/06/24/uswomensopen/index.html Career female amateur joins World Golf Hall of Fame] ]

Major works

* "The Story of American Golf", by Herbert Warren Wind, Classics of Golf, 1948 (1st ed.) and 1975 (3rd ed.), ISBN 0394490207.
* "The Complete Golfer", by Herbert Warren Wind, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1954.
* "Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf", by Ben Hogan and Herbert Warren Wind, 1957, ISBN 0434981052.
* "Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book", by Herbert Warren Wind, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1971, ISBN 067120808X.
* "The World of P.G. Wodehouse", by Herbert Warren Wind, Praeger, 1972, ISBN 0091456703.
* "Game, Set, and Match: the Tennis Boom of the 1960's and 70's", by Herbert Warren Wind, New York, E.P. Dutton, 1979, ISBN 0525111409.
* "Following Through", by Herbert Warren Wind, New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1985, ISBN 0899193986.

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