Herbert Corey Leeds

Born in Boston on January 30, 1855, Herbert Corey Leeds was an American amateur golfer, yachtsman, and golf-course architect. He is best known for designing important early courses at Myopia Hunt Club and Bass Rocks, and for helping shape the game in the United States during its early years.

Leeds also wrote and published works that reflected the world he moved in, including The Laws of Euchre and Log of the Columbia, Season of 1899. Those books are less about a literary career in the modern sense than about preserving the rules, habits, and sporting culture of his time.

He died on September 29, 1930. Today, his name is remembered both in golf history and in the small body of period writing he left behind, which gives readers a direct window into American leisure life at the turn of the 20th century.