[Warwick Loton]

I've just seen a reference to an article that Herbert Warren Wind apparently wrote in The New Yorker, entitled "The Ten Greatest Golf Courses in the World and Why". It would have been published around 1960.

I don't know if this is a well known article, but would be interested if anybody knows about it. Also, it would be great if somebody could post a link to the article, or alternatively post a copy of its' contents.

[Mark Bourgeois]

Warwick

I spent a fruitless month searching for it but couldn't find it in the complete New Yorker archives,the Sports Illustrated archives, or a variety of other places.  My best guess is it is in the program for the 1959 World Cup.

Although, come to think of it, I didn't see if Brad Klein knows of it.

Mark

[Tom_Doak]

I have never seen that article.

He did write an extensive piece [did he write any other kind?] in GOLF DIGEST c. 1985 about his three favorite courses:  Merion, Cypress Point, and Seminole.

[Sean_A]

I have never seen that article.

He did write an extensive piece [did he write any other kind?] in GOLF DIGEST c. 1985 about his three favorite courses:  Merion, Cypress Point, and Seminole.

http://www.golfdigest.com/magazine/2008/10/herbertwind1980

Ciao

[Warwick Loton]

Thanks for those comments.

Mark,

The reference was contained within Paul Daley's book, The Sandbelt. It suggested that Wind wrote the article upon returning to the US after the 1959 World Cup. Nevertheless, I'll try to lay my hands on a copy of that World Cup program, and shall report back if successful.

[PThomas]

I wish ALL of HWWs works were put in books/a multi volume set

such a book/books would certainly be one of the great publications in golf history

[Mark Bourgeois]

Warwick

That's where I read it, too - but when I asked Paul D about it he didn't know where it came from either!

There was a program listed by a Melbourne bookseller a while ago, but they treated me so rudely I refused to give them the satisfaction.

Personally, I don't know whether it actually exists. I think a partial list could be cobbled together from his writings over the years, but what I'm after us to read his "and why" comments.

For one of the frustrations in reading Wind's occasional comments about this or that course being great is that often they're throwaway comments, like his "four greatest tests of golf in the UK."

Mark

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