His article "North to Dornoch" brought that great course to the attention of Americans, including, I'm sure, our own Richard Goodale and David Tepper. It was virtually unknown on this side of the Atlantic, from what I've heard.
A few years ago, before the immense storage of the cloud, the New Yorker offered an external hard drive which had an archive of all past New Yorker issues, complete with articles, covers, ads and cartoons. I bought one just to read HWW's articles on golf. They are that good.