From the dunes of BallyB to London, amen to all that

THE grandly-named Herbert Warren Wind touched down in Dublin for the first time in 1967.

Nine years earlier, at the Augusta National Golf Club — home of the Masters, of course — the Sports Illustrated journalist christened the second shot at the 11th, all of the 12th, and the tee shot at the 13th ‘Amen Corner’. You’ll still hear it referred to as such today.

The nickname is derived from a song that Wind had heard while a student at the prestigious Ivy League college of Yale in the 1930s — “Shoutin’ in that Amen Corner” by the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra.