Herbert Warren Wind’s Golf Book (1948)

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By Herbert Warren Wind

A stirring collection of magazine articles and excerpts assembled only the way Herbert Warren Wind can. Wind offers his thoughts on Hogan, Snead, Venturi and Darwin, among others. Wind’s finest essays were written for The New Yorker Magazine, which gave him all the space he needed. They inspired thousands of golfers and set the standards for the golf writers that followed. This collection contains some of his most famous pieces on the great players, tournaments, golf architecture, turning points in the history of the game, and unusual aspects of golf that no one else bothered to write about . James Braid (1952) by Bernard Darwin The story of one of the Triumvirate who, at the turn of the century, along with Taylor and Vardon, elevated the game from a Scottish curiousity to a level of unimaginable popularity.

The first collection of Wind’s essays, mostly from The New Yorker magazine. Here are such famous pieces, which inspired thousands of golfers and hundreds of golf writers and set the standard for writing about the game in the U.S., as “North to the Links of Dornach”, “The 1964 United States Open: The Third Man”, and “Some Thoughts on Golf Course Architecture”. The best from America’s best golf writer.

Foreword by Bing Crosby.