BOOK ABOUT SCOTTISH,IRISH COURSES WINS
USGA AWARD
James W. Finegan’s “Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland” has been named the recipient of the 2006 United States Golf Association’s Herbert Warren Wind Book Award.
“Where Golf is Great” celebrates the rich tradition of golf in Scotland and Ireland. A noted golf writer, Finegan describes more than 150 courses through Scotland and Ireland, detailing their rich history and charm. Well-known courses like St Andrews, Gleneagles and Royal County Down are featured, as are many unheralded courses such as Brora and Ireland’s Carlow.
Accompanied by Laurence Lambrecht’s stunning photographs, “Where Golf is Great” is the ultimate travelogue for the golfer. In addition to course histories and factoids, Finegan adds insight into the best places to stay and dine after a day on the links.
“For forty years, I have believed that Herb Wind was without peer among American golf writers and that his masterpiece, “The Story of American Golf”, is the single-best golf book, from either side of the ocean, ever written,” said Finegan.
WIND ARTICLES PROVIDED INSPIRATION
“My book on the courses of Scotland and Ireland was actually inspired by two of Wind’s most memorable New Yorker pieces, “North to the Links of Dornoch” in 1964 and “The Greens of Ireland” in 1967. It is safe to say I will forever be in his debt.”
Beginning in 1954, Finegan worked as a copywriter at Gray and Rogers, an advertising firm. He retired in 1990 after serving as chairman and CEO since 1973. He began his writing career in 1976 when he started to contribute golf-travel articles to newspapers and magazines.
Since being retired, he has written six previous golf books, drawing on his more than 40 visits to Scotland and Ireland since the mid-1970s. He is the author of “Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens,” “A Golfer’s Pilgrimage to the Courses of Scotland,” “Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas,” “All Courses Great and Small: A Golfer’s Pilgrimage to England and Wales,” “A Centennial Tribute to Golf in Philadelphia,” and “Pine Valley Golf Club: A Unique Haven of the Game.”
For the past 20 years, Finegan has served on the Golf Magazine panel that annually chooses the top 100 greatest golf courses in the world. He currently resides in Villanova, Pa.
Finegan will be presented the award on April 5 in Augusta, Georgia, at the Golf Writers Association of America’s annual awards dinner during the week of the Masters Tournament.
TOP LITERARY PRIZE
Presented by the USGA Museum Committee, the Herbert Warren Wind Book Award is the top literary prize awarded by the Association. Established in 1987 and renamed in Wind’s honour in 2006, the award recognises and honours outstanding contributions to golf literature, while attempting to broaden the public’s interest and knowledge of the game of golf.
Wind, who passed away in May 2005, is the only writer to win the Bob Jones Award, the USGA’s highest honoUr. For nearly 30 years he was a volunteer on two USGA committees, the Bob Jones Award Committee and the Museum and Library Committee.
Wind’s portrait hangs in the UGSA Library, where copies of his 14 books and countless essays and articles also reside. He was a long-time essayist for both The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated.
James W. Finegan’s “Where Golf is Great: The Finest Courses of Scotland and Ireland” has been named the recipient of the 2006 United States Golf Association’s Herbert Warren Wind Book Award.
“Where Golf is Great” celebrates the rich tradition of golf in Scotland and Ireland. A noted golf writer, Finegan describes more than 150 courses through Scotland and Ireland, detailing their rich history and charm. Well-known courses like St Andrews, Gleneagles and Royal County Down are featured, as are many unheralded courses such as Brora and Ireland’s Carlow.
Accompanied by Laurence Lambrecht’s stunning photographs, “Where Golf is Great” is the ultimate travelogue for the golfer. In addition to course histories and factoids, Finegan adds insight into the best places to stay and dine after a day on the links.
“For forty years, I have believed that Herb Wind was without peer among American golf writers and that his masterpiece, “The Story of American Golf”, is the single-best golf book, from either side of the ocean, ever written,” said Finegan.
WIND ARTICLES PROVIDED INSPIRATION
“My book on the courses of Scotland and Ireland was actually inspired by two of Wind’s most memorable New Yorker pieces, “North to the Links of Dornoch” in 1964 and “The Greens of Ireland” in 1967. It is safe to say I will forever be in his debt.”
Beginning in 1954, Finegan worked as a copywriter at Gray and Rogers, an advertising firm. He retired in 1990 after serving as chairman and CEO since 1973. He began his writing career in 1976 when he started to contribute golf-travel articles to newspapers and magazines.
Since being retired, he has written six previous golf books, drawing on his more than 40 visits to Scotland and Ireland since the mid-1970s. He is the author of “Blasted Heaths and Blessed Greens,” “A Golfer’s Pilgrimage to the Courses of Scotland,” “Emerald Fairways and Foam-Flecked Seas,” “All Courses Great and Small: A Golfer’s Pilgrimage to England and Wales,” “A Centennial Tribute to Golf in Philadelphia,” and “Pine Valley Golf Club: A Unique Haven of the Game.”
For the past 20 years, Finegan has served on the Golf Magazine panel that annually chooses the top 100 greatest golf courses in the world. He currently resides in Villanova, Pa.
Finegan will be presented the award on April 5 in Augusta, Georgia, at the Golf Writers Association of America’s annual awards dinner during the week of the Masters Tournament.
TOP LITERARY PRIZE
Presented by the USGA Museum Committee, the Herbert Warren Wind Book Award is the top literary prize awarded by the Association. Established in 1987 and renamed in Wind’s honour in 2006, the award recognises and honours outstanding contributions to golf literature, while attempting to broaden the public’s interest and knowledge of the game of golf.
Wind, who passed away in May 2005, is the only writer to win the Bob Jones Award, the USGA’s highest honoUr. For nearly 30 years he was a volunteer on two USGA committees, the Bob Jones Award Committee and the Museum and Library Committee.
Wind’s portrait hangs in the UGSA Library, where copies of his 14 books and countless essays and articles also reside. He was a long-time essayist for both The New Yorker and Sports Illustrated.
Among his many contributions to golf, he is credited with naming "Amen Corner" at Augusta National Golf Club, site of The Masters Tournament.
Previous USGA Book Award winners are:
Year Winner Title
1987 Al Barkow "Gettin’ to the Dance Floor"
1989 Phil Pilley "Golfing Art"
1990 Robert Trent Jones Sr. "Golf’s Magnificent Challenge"
1991 Bobby Burnet "The St. Andrews Opens"
1992 Rhonda Glenn "The Illustrated History of Women’s Golf"
1997 Davis Love III "Every Shot I Take"
1998 Lawrence Donegan "Maybe It Should Have Been a Three-Iron"
1999 David Owen "The Making of the Masters"
2000 Stephen Lowe "Sir Walter and Mr. Jones"
2001 Bradley S. Klein "Discovering Donald Ross
2002 Mark Frost "The Greatest Game Ever Played"
2003 Phil Pilley "Heather and Heaven: Walton Heath Golf Club”
2004 James Dodson "Ben Hogan: An American Life"
2005 John Strege "When War Played Through”
Note: No award was presented in 1988 or from 1993-96.
The USGA currently accepts submissions for the 2007 Book Award. For more information, contact Doug Stark, USGA curator of education, at (908) 234-2300 or dstark@usga.org.
Previous USGA Book Award winners are:
Year Winner Title
1987 Al Barkow "Gettin’ to the Dance Floor"
1989 Phil Pilley "Golfing Art"
1990 Robert Trent Jones Sr. "Golf’s Magnificent Challenge"
1991 Bobby Burnet "The St. Andrews Opens"
1992 Rhonda Glenn "The Illustrated History of Women’s Golf"
1997 Davis Love III "Every Shot I Take"
1998 Lawrence Donegan "Maybe It Should Have Been a Three-Iron"
1999 David Owen "The Making of the Masters"
2000 Stephen Lowe "Sir Walter and Mr. Jones"
2001 Bradley S. Klein "Discovering Donald Ross
2002 Mark Frost "The Greatest Game Ever Played"
2003 Phil Pilley "Heather and Heaven: Walton Heath Golf Club”
2004 James Dodson "Ben Hogan: An American Life"
2005 John Strege "When War Played Through”
Note: No award was presented in 1988 or from 1993-96.
The USGA currently accepts submissions for the 2007 Book Award. For more information, contact Doug Stark, USGA curator of education, at (908) 234-2300 or dstark@usga.org.
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