By Andy Graham
In 1958, a man by the name of Herbert Warren Wind wrote an article in Sports Illustrated about that year’s Masters golf tournament (won by Arnold Palmer), which is held at the picturesque Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.
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