Dan Jenkins Quotes
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Fort Worth is friendly; it's still a Texas town. It's the most Texas city in Texas.
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The U.S. won the majors 29-11 in the 1980s. That's when Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus were carrying the ball, and when Seve Ballesteros was becoming a Brit in the minds of English and Scottish journalists.
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Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.
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There are no Dave Marrs anymore.
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I don't cover golf tournaments anymore - I preside over them.
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My life has been very lucky, but I made some of that luck.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
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I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
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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.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
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Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.
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Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.
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I don't have contempt for Tiger Woods.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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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.
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The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.