The definitive collection of a legendary sportswriter's reflections on his favorite game In this classic anthology, Herbert Warren Wind recreates Ben Hogan's stirring performance in the third round of the 1967 Masters, when the fifty-four-year-old former champion turned back the clock to birdie six of the final nine holes and send spectators home as exhilarated as schoolboys. At the 1964 US Open, the dean of American golf writers captures the drama and excitement of one of the most inspiring stories in American golf: Ken Venturi's heroic victory over Arnold Palmer, Tommy Jacobs, and a case of heat exhaustion to win his only major championship. From Harry Vardon to Steve Ballesteros, Pebble Beach to Ballybunion, the British Open to the President's Putter, this generous and entertaining volume contains Herbert Warren Wind's most famous essays on the sport he loved above all others. Vivid, eloquent, and insightful, Following Through showcases a master craftsman at the very top of his form.
"It is his susceptibility to the exhilaration golf can generate that makes Mr. Wind so valuable as a chronicler of the sport. His shot-by-shot recreations of great matches put readers right in the galleries, and this holds even for his accounts of long-ago matches he could not have attended. All the great golfers, from Harry Vardon to Jack Nicklaus, and all the great courses, from St. Andrews in S
The New York Times Book Review
"Golf has attracted many fine writers, but none extols the game with more authority and affection than Herb Wind, or more successfully conveys its gracious, fickle, generous spirit to the printed page."
John Updike
"No American has written more knowledgeably, perceptively and interestingly about golf than Herbert Warren Wind. I was proud to have him as a collaborator on my first book, and I am sure the reissuing of Following Through will bring enormous enjoyment to a great many golfers."
