Dan Jenkins
Dan Jenkins
Dan Jenkinsis an American author and sportswriter who often wrote for Sports Illustrated...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
boring chances course design guy hopes manager money player public rich
If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
across america among bars courses elegant public sprung turned
Among the many things that have slipped up on me while my back was turned are all of these challenging and well-manicured public courses that have sprung up across America with elegant bars and restaurants.
anymore clubhouse corporate course guys park seven store
You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.
course deal gather open pebble people public time
I gather most people don't remember that when the U.S. Open first went to Pebble Beach in 1972, a big deal was made of the Open going to a public course for the first time.
newspapers survive
I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
hatchet impress jobs liberal piece presents
There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
nelson
I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
dwight eisenhower gets house though
Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.
broadway cab driver dropped finding greatly hit masters sir
The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
clears head media
At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
august grab heat sit
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
bobby foreigners francis front general jack jones masters named pages round send
If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
fascinated grab mainly morning newspapers sports war
Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.
worried
CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios.