Herbert Warren Wind Book Award

The award is named after Herbert Warren Wind (August 11, 1916 – May 30, 2005), an American golfer and golf writer, who also wrote on other subjects.

Established in 1987 and renamed in 2006, The Herbert Warren Wind Book Award recognizes and honors outstanding contributions to golf literature. Named in honor of the famed 20th-century American golf writer, the award acknowledges and encourages outstanding research, writing, and publishing about golf. The award attempts to broaden the public’s interest and knowledge in the game of golf. Presented by the USGA Museum, the Book Award is the top literary prize awarded by the USGA.

To be eligible for the USGA Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, a book must be an original work about golf, written in English, and published in the same year.

In the year of 2008, The Colossus of Golf 1821-1908 written by David Malcolm and Peter E. Crabtree, published by Tom Morris of St. Andrews won the title. Kevin Cook won the award with his Tommy’s Honor in 2007. If you like, you can read them and write a better one if you want to.

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