Herbert Warren Wind letter (RLC.Ms.547)

Biographical note

Herbert Warren Wind (1916-2005) was an American golfer and golf writer from Brockton, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University in 1937 and pursued a career in writing and journalism, later becoming an authority on the game of golf. In 1941, Wind began writing for The New Yorker covering golf and other sports until 1953 and again from 1960 until his retirement in 1990. Wind was the first golf editor for Sports Illustrated magazine from 1954 to 1960. He also authored a number of popular golf books, such as The Story of American Golf in 1948 and Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf in 1957. Wind was also involved in televising golf in the 1960s and taught a seminar on sports writing at Yale during the 1970s. Herbert Warren Wind died at the age of eighty-eight in Bedford, Massachusetts, on May 30, 2005. The United States Golf Association renamed its annual book award in his honor in 2006.