Golf writer Wind is dead

Herbert Warren Wind, the Brockton native whose passion for golf grew out of childhood rounds at Thorny Lea Golf Club and led to a legendary writing career at The New Yorker, died yesterday at his home in Bedford. He was 89.

A graduate of Yale, Wind also earned a degree in English literature at Cambridge University. It was during his time in England that he became enamored with writing about golf, something he did brilliantly in two stints at The New Yorker (1948-53; 1960-90) and for six years as one of the first sportswriters hired at Sports Illustrated. It was in a Sports Illustrated article in 1958 that Wind dubbed Augusta National's 11th, 12th, and 13th holes ''Amen Corner."

Among his closest friends in golf, Wind counted Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, and Francis Ouimet. He authored 14 books, including projects with Jack Nicklaus and Hogan.

''He certainly taught us an awful lot about golf," said his sister, Gertrude Scheft of Weston.

JIM McCABE